| shuni virus as cause of neurologic disease in horses. | to determine which agents cause neurologic disease in horses, we conducted reverse transcription pcr on isolates from of a horse with encephalitis and 111 other horses with acute disease. shuni virus was found in 7 horses, 5 of which had neurologic signs. testing for lesser known viruses should be considered for horses with unexplained illness. | 0 | 22305525 |
| antibodies against west nile and shuni viruses in veterinarians, south africa. | | 0 | 25062350 |
| a sensitive nested real-time rt-pcr for the detection of shuni virus. | recently shuni virus (shuv) has been identified in clinical cases of neurological disease in horses in south africa. being that it was one of the less recognized orthobunyaviruses, with limited clinical descriptions of disease dating back to the 1960s and 1970s, shuv-specific assays were never developed. in this study, the development of a nested real-time pcr assay is described for the detection of shuv by means of melt-curve analysis using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (fret) probe te ... | 2014 | 24134941 |
| genomic and phylogenetic characterization of shuni virus. | shuni virus (shuv), a member of the genus orthobunyavirus, has in a recent study been associated with neurological disease in horses in south africa. after its first isolation in 1966 from an asymptomatic bovine, very little attention was given to the genetic characterisation of shuv. the association of shuv with severe neurological disease in several horses in south africa prompted us to determine the full genome sequence of a horse neurovirulent isolate to compare it to other members of the ge ... | 2014 | 24957652 |
| malformations caused by shuni virus in ruminants, israel, 2014-2015. | | 2015 | 26583957 |
| characterization of shuni viruses detected in israel. | shuni virus (shuv) was recently identified in israel in several brains of ovine, bovine, and goat fetuses and newborn animals with congenital arthrogryposis-hydranencephaly syndrome. in the present study, the sequences of several israeli shuv strains were analyzed in detail; based on the small genome segment which encodes the nucleocapsid protein and the small nonstructural protein (nss), a very high similarity of 99-100 % among each other was found. in contrast to the highly conserved n protein ... | 2016 | 27540741 |
| assessing the zoonotic potential of arboviruses of african origin. | several african arboviruses have emerged over the past decade in new regions where they caused major outbreaks in humans and/or animals including west nile virus, chikungunya virus and zika virus. this raise questions regarding the importance of less known zoonotic arboviruses in local epidemics in africa and their potential to emerge internationally. syndromic surveillance in animals may serve as an early warning system to detect zoonotic arbovirus outbreaks. rift valley fever and wesselsbronvi ... | 2017 | 29216533 |