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Journal of General Virology (2001), 82, 2785-2790.
© 2001 Society for General Microbiology

Animal: DNA Viruses

Ovine herpesvirus-2 glycoprotein B sequences from tissues of ruminant malignant catarrhal fever cases and healthy sheep are highly conserved

Magdalena Dunowska1, Geoffrey J. Letchworth2, James K. Collins3 and James C. DeMartini1

Department of Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA1
USDA, ARS, Arthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, Laramie, WY 82071-3965, USA2
Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0090, USA3

Author for correspondence: Magdalena Dunowska. Fax +1 970 491 0603. e-mail mdunowsk{at}lamar.colostate.edu

Ovine herpesvirus-2 (OHV-2) infection has been associated with malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) in susceptible ruminants. In order to further investigate whether OHV-2 is an aetiological agent for sheep-associated (SA) MCF in cattle and bison, the entire sequences of OHV-2 glycoprotein B (gB) from different sources of viral DNA were compared. Target DNA was derived from tissues of bovine and bison cases of SA-MCF, from a lymphoblastoid cell line established from another bovine case of SA-MCF, and from a healthy sheep. The divergence between deduced amino acid sequences of OHV-2 gB ranged from 0·5 to 1·2%. The high degree of similarity between gB sequences from a healthy sheep and clinical cases of SA-MCF in cattle and bison suggests that OHV-2 is an ovine virus that is occasionally transmitted to other ruminant species, in which it can cause severe disease.




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