Luís Guilherme de Oliveira

Introduction:Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) has cattle as natural hosts, but it can infect other animals, such as sheep, goat and swine. Once infected, pigs usually do not present clinical signals of infection, which can leads to a silence viral dissemination among animals. Furthermore, the transmission of BVDV between pigs and ruminants requires direct or indirect contact, but virus transmiss ...

1. IntroductionClassical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most important infectious viral disease of domestic pigs and wild boars, caused by the classical swine fever virus (CSFV), which belongs to the species Pestivirus C, is an enveloped RNA virus belonging to the growing genus Pestivirus, within the family Flaviviridae [1–3]. CSFV strains can be divided into three genotypes, with three to ...

1. Updates on BVDV Infection in SwineBovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is an infection caused by the bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), belonging to the genus Pestivirus, family Flaviviridae, with single-stranded positive polarity RNA [1]. Viruses belonging to the Pestivirus genus infect hosts of several animal species and include viral agents of great impact for animal production [2,3]. The Pestivirus ...