Re-emergence of BTV serotype 4 in North Macedonia, July 2020.

John Flannery Simon KingPaulina Rajko-NenowZagorka PopovaKiril KrstevskiIgor DjadjovskiCarrie Batten

Published in: Transboundary and emerging diseases (2020)

Bluetongue virus serotype 4 (BTV-4) was confirmed in sheep in North Macedonia in July 2020. The full genome of this BTV-4 strain (MKD2020/06) was shown to be most closely related (99.74% nt identity) to the Greek GRE2014/08 and the Hungarian HUN1014 strains, indicating the re-emergence of this BTV serotype in the Balkan region since it was last reported in 2017.

Keyphrases

dengue virus
klebsiella pneumoniae
disease virus
zika virus
escherichia coli
tertiary care
aedes aegypti
multidrug resistant
genome wide