Table. Summary of diagnostic and laboratory findings, animal species, sample materials, and region where samples were collected in the study of Shuni virus infection in ruminants, Israel, 2014–15*.
Animal no. | Laboratory no. | Species | Clinical manifestation | Region | PCR-positive sample | Vero isolation | Virus isolation in mice |
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1 | 2417/1/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Negative | Negative |
2 | 2417/2/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain | Negative | Negative |
3 | 267/2/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain | Not done | Not done |
4 | 267/3/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain | Not done | Not done |
5 | 267/4/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain | Not done | Not done |
6 | 2498/1/14 | Sheep | Weak lamb syndrome | Northern valley | Brain, EDTA-blood | Negative | Negative |
7 | 2504/1/14 | Sheep | Malformed aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain | Not done | Not done |
8 | 2504/2/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Negative | Negative |
9 | 273/14 | Sheep† | Malformed, aborted fetus | Negev | Brain | Not done | Not done |
10 | 274/14 | Sheep | Aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Not done | Not done |
11 | 2504/3/14 | Sheep† | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Positive | Positive |
12 | 275/1/14 | Sheep | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Negative | Negative |
13 | 275/2/14 | Sheep | Malformed aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Not done | Not done |
14 | 263/14 | Goat | Malformed, aborted fetus | Northern valley | Brain, placenta | Not done | Not done |
15 | 215/14 | Cattle | Aborted fetus | Upper Galilee | Brain | Negative | Negative |
*Not done, not performed if insufficient brain material was available for cerebral inoculation or if the infected brain failed to propagate in the cell line. For some animals, >1 sample was collected. †Sequences used to build the phylogenetic trees in Technical Appendix Figure 2.