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Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is an emerging orthobunyavirus of ruminants discovered in November 2011 in Germany.
The virus causes malformations in neonatal ruminants, where it replicates predominantly in the neurons of the grey matter (see Varela et al., doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003133). Picture shows a coronal brain section of a calf presenting large cavities with severely reduced thickness of the cortex (poroencephaly), a malformation commonly observed in neonatal ruminants with naturally occurring SBV infection.
Image Credit: Vanessa Herder, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
Citation: (2013) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 9(1) January 2013. PLoS Pathog 9(1): ev09.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v09.i01
Published: January 31, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Herder. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The virus causes malformations in neonatal ruminants, where it replicates predominantly in the neurons of the grey matter (see Varela et al., doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003133). Picture shows a coronal brain section of a calf presenting large cavities with severely reduced thickness of the cortex (poroencephaly), a malformation commonly observed in neonatal ruminants with naturally occurring SBV infection.
Image Credit: Vanessa Herder, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany