molecular characterization of an akabane virus isolate from west java, indonesia. | we isolated an arbovirus from bovine blood in indonesia. the arbovirus was obtained from the plasma of a cow showing no clinical symptoms in west java in february 2014, and was identified as akabane virus (akav) by akav-specific rt-pcr and subsequent sequence analysis. phylogenetic analysis based on partial s segment indicated the akav isolate, wj-1sa/p/2014, was most closely related with two isolates from israel and turkey reported in 2001 and 2015, respectively, and that wj-1sa/p/2014 isolate ... | 2017 | 28302930 |