Affiliation: | a School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, 582 Bunkyoudai-Midorimachi Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069-8501, Japan b Xinjiang Institute for Endemic Diseases Control and Research, Urumqi, Xinjiang 83002, China c Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan d Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan e Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki 216-0001, Japan |
Abstract: | To investigate the animals infected with Borna disease virus (BDV) in Xinjiang, China, we examined for BDV antibodies in the sera from groups of 20 horses, sheep and cattle, and from 165 wild rodents (18 species) by ELISA and immunoblot. The serological study disclosed the presence of antibodies to both BDV-p24 and -p40 in the horses (20%) and sheep (25%), whereas no apparent positive reaction was detected either in cattle or rodents. The results suggested that BDV is prevalent in horses and sheep in the district investigated. |