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Título: | Border disease virus seroprevalence correlates to antibodies in bulk-tank milk and reproductive performance of dairy sheep flocks |
Autor: | García-Pérez, A. L.; Ruiz-Fons, Francisco CSIC ORCID ; Barandika, J. F.; Juste, Ramón A.; Hurtado, Ana CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | ELISA Bulk-tank milk Sheep Border disease |
Fecha de publicación: | 2010 | Editor: | American Dairy Science Association Elsevier |
Citación: | Journal of Dairy Science 93(6): 2444-2449 (2010) | Resumen: | There is a great need to establish effective tools to control border disease virus (BDV) in European dairy sheep flocks. Hence, our main aim was to investigate the accuracy of analyzing anti-BDV antibodies in bulk-tank milk (BTM) in detecting the real BDV seroprevalence in dairy sheep flocks. Furthermore, the relevance of BDV to reproductive performance of dairy sheep flocks prompted us to search for the association between BDV seroprevalence and reproductive parameters. For these purposes, 34 flocks were selected based on different percentages of antibody inhibition (AIP) values in BTM as estimated by ELISA. Serum samples from 10 replacement lambs older than 6 mo, 10 ewes 1 to 2 yr old, and 10 ewes >2 yr old were collected and analyzed for the presence of anti-BDV antibodies by ELISA. A negative relationship between BDV AIP in BTM and within-flock seroprevalence was observed. Flocks with a high AIP (>80%) had an average of 2.5% seropositive animals; flocks with a moderate AIP (46-79%) had 11.4% seropositive animals; and finally, flocks with an AIP ¿45% showed a high flock seroprevalence (57.2%). Ten out of 34 flocks showed a high BDV seroprevalence in lambs, suggesting the presence of persistently infected animals in the flock. The observed AIP values in BTM from these likely BDV-infected flocks were indicative of a high seroprevalence. The analysis of reproductive-parameters data collected from these flocks showed no differences in fertility or prolificacy in relation to BDV circulation rates. Nonetheless, lamb mortality was significantly greater in flocks with low-moderate seroprevalence (10-30%), probably as a result of a first-time contact with BDV of previously naïve ewes. These findings suggest that testing of BTM samples may be useful in inferring the BDV seroprevalence in a flock. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/144099 | DOI: | 10.3168/jds.2009-2774 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.3168/jds.2009-2774 issn: 0022-0302 e-issn: 1525-3198 |
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