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Schmallenberg Virus (SBV)

ID Screen® Schmallenberg virus Competition Multi-species

ELISA

Competitive ELISA for the detection of antibodies directed against the Schmallenberg virus nucleoprotein in serum or plasma from multiple species

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  • Applicable to multiple species, including cattle, sheep and goats
  • Improved sensitivity for sera with low VNT titres
  • Earlier detection of seroconversion
  • Improved specificity
  • Robust and easy-to-use: the conjugate is supplied ready-to-use, and results are obtained in 90 minutes

Method :

Competitive ELISA

Species :

Ruminants and other species

Specimens :

Serum and plasma

Coated antigen :

Recombinant SBV nucleoprotein antigen

Conjugate :

Anti-SBV nucleoprotein-HRP conjugate

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Plate format

SBVC-2P 2 plates 192 12 x 8-well strips
SBVC-5P 5 plates 480 12 x 8-well strips
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
  1. Wernike K. et al. (2019). International proficiency trial demonstrates reliable Schmallenberg virus infection diagnosis in endemic and non-affected countries. PLoS ONE 14 (6): e0219054.
  2. Pejaković S. et al. (2018). Test selection for antibody detection according to the seroprevalence level of Schmallenberg virus in sheep. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0196532.
  3. Schulz C. et al. (2015). Schmallenberg virus infection in South American camelids: Field and experimental investigations. Veterinary Microbiology 180 (2015) 171–179.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES

CATTLE

  1. Djellata N.et al. (2025). Investigating serological evidence of Schmallenberg virus in cattle in eastern Algeria. Veterinary Research Forum (Vol. 16, No. 3, p. 129).
  2. Rasekh, M. et al. (2022). First detection of Schmallenberg virus antibody in cattle population of eastern Iran.  Veterinary Research Forum (Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 443).
  3. Agerholm J.S. et al. (2022). Occurrence of malformed calves in April–May 2021 indicates an unnoticed 2020 emergence of Schmallenberg virus in Denmark. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 69(5), 3128-3132.
  4. Molini U. et al. (2018). Antibodies against Schmallenberg virus detected in cattle in the Otjozondjupa region, Namibia. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 89(0), a1666.
  5. Wernike K. et al. (2018). Development of within-herd immunity and long-term persistence of antibodies against Schmallenberg virus in naturally infected cattle. BMC veterinary research, 14(1), 368.8.
  6. Jawor P. et al. (2017). Infection exposure, detection and causes of death in perinatal mortalities in Polish dairy herds. Theriogenology, 103, 130-136.
  7. Collins A.B. et al. (2017). Schmallenberg virus: predicting within-herd seroprevalence using bulk-tank milk antibody titres and exploring individual animal antibody titres using empirical distribution functions (EDF). Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 143, 68-78.
  8. Collins A.B. et al. (2017). Significant re‐emergence and recirculation of Schmallenberg virus in previously exposed dairy herds in Ireland in 2016. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 64(5), 1359-1363.
  9. Collins A.B. et al. (2016). Post-epidemic Schmallenberg virus circulation: parallel bovine serological and Culicoides virological surveillance studies in Ireland. Veterinary Research 12:234.
  10. Wernike K. et al. (2014). Dynamics of Schmallenberg virus infection within a cattle herd in Germany, 2011. Epidemiol. Infect. 142, 1501–1504.

SMALL RUMINANTS

  1. Kiene F. et al. (2024). Exposure of small ruminants to the Schmallenberg arbovirus in Germany from 2017 to 2018–animal-specific and flock-management-related risk factors. Preventive veterinary medicine, 230, 106274.
  2. Veljović L. et al. (2023). Seroprevalence of Schmallenberg virus in sheep in Belgrade epizootic area. Acta Veterinaria, 73(4), 502-510.
  3. Larska M. et al. (2023). Occurrence of emerging ruminant viruses in goats in Poland. Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 26(1), 137-142.
  4. Al-Barwary L.T.O. (2018). Serological Study For Detection Of New Emerging Ectoparasites Borne Disease (Schmallenberge Viruse) In Duhok Province – Iraq. Assiut Vet. Med. J. Vol. 64 No. 159, 39-42.
  5. Sohier C. et al. (2017). Unchanged Schmallenberg virus seroprevalence in the Belgian sheep population after the vector season of 2014 and 2015 despite evidence of virus circulation. Research in Veterinary Science, 114, 177-180.
  6. Sohier C. et al. (2017). Evidence of extensive renewed Schmallenberg virus circulation in Belgium during summer of 2016–increase in arthrogryposis‐hydranencephaly cases expected. Transboundary and emerging diseases, 64(4), 1015-1019.
  7. Valas S. et al. (2015). Serosurvey of Schmallenberg Virus Infection in the Highest Goat‐Specialized Region of France. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 62(5), e85-e88.

CATTLE AND SMALL RUMINANTS

  1. Foxi C. et al. (2025). Assessing Schmallenberg Virus Disease in Sardinia (Italy) After the First Epidemic Episode in 2012. Pathogens, 14(4), 349.
  2. Rexhepi A. et al. (2021). First evidence of Schmallenberg virus infection in domestic ruminants in Kosovo and Albania. Veterinaria Italiana, 57(1), 13-17.
  3. Kęsik‐Maliszewska J. et al. (2021). Schmallenberg virus in Poland endemic or re‐emerging? A six‐year serosurvey. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(4), 2188-2198.
  4. Zhai S.L. et al. (2017). Preliminary serological evidence for Schmallenberg virus infection in China. Trop Anim Health Prod DOI 10.1007/s11250-017-1433-2.
  5. Blomström A.L. et al. (2014). Serological Screening Suggests Presence of Schmallenberg Virus in Cattle, Sheep and Goat in the Zambezia Province, Mozambique. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases Published by Blackwell Verlag GmbH. 61 (2014) 289–292.
  6. Chaintoutis S.C. et al. (2013). Evidence of Schmallenberg virus circulation in ruminants in Greece.Trop Anim Health Prod DOI 10.1007/s11250-013-0449-5.

SWINE

  1. Ferrara G. et al. (2024). Pigs in southern Italy are exposed to three ruminant pathogens: an analysis of seroprevalence and risk factors analysis study. BMC veterinary research, 20(1), 183.

DOGS

  1. Wensman J.J. et al. (2013). Presence of Antibodies to Schmallenberg Virus in a Dog in Sweden. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Vol. 51, N°8, p. 2802-2803.

CAMELIDS

  1. Stanitznig A. et al. (2016). Prevalence of important viral infections in new world camelids in Austria. Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift – Veterinary Medicine Austria 103.

WILDLIFE

  1. Wernike K. et al. (2024). Extensive Schmallenberg virus circulation in Germany, 2023. Veterinary Research, 55(1), 134.
  2. Bayrou C. et al. (2022). Schmallenberg virus, cyclical reemergence in the core region: a seroepidemiologic study in wild cervids, Belgium, 2012–2017. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 69(3), 1625-1633.
  3. Kesik-Maliszewska J. et al. (2018). Epidemiology of Schmallenberg virus in european bison (Bison bonasus) in Poland. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 54(2), pp. 272–282.
  4. Graham D.A. et al. (2017). A survey of free-ranging deer in Ireland for serological evidence of exposure to bovine viral diarrhoea virus, bovine herpes virus-1, bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus. Irish Veterinary Journal, 70(1), 13.
  5. Kęsik-Maliszewska J. et al. (2017). Were Polish wild boars exposed to Schmallenberg virus? J Vet Res 61, 151-155.
  6. Malmsten A. et al. (2017). Serological testing of Schmallenberg virus in Swedish wild cervids from 2012 to 2016. BMC Veterinary Research 13:84.
  7. Krzysiak M.K. et al. (2016). Serological study of exposure to selected arthropod‐borne pathogens in European Bison (Bison bonasus) in Poland. Transboundary and emerging diseases, 64(5), 1411-1423.
  8. Laloy E. et al. (2016). Schmallenberg virus in zoo ruminants, France and the Netherlands. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(12), 2201.
  9. Molenaar F.M. et al. (2015). Exposure of Asian elephants and other exotic ungulates to Schmallenberg virus. PLoS One, 10(8), e0135532.
  10. Mouchantat S. et al. (2015). A broad-spectrum Screening of Schmallenberg virus antibodies in wildlife animals in Germany. Veterinary Research, 46(1), 99.
  11. Chiari M. et al. (2014). Serosurvey for Schmallenberg virus in alpine wild ungulates. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 61(1), 1-3.
  12. Laloy E. et al. (2014). Schmallenberg virus infection among red deer, France, 2010–2012. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20(1), 131.
  13. Larska M. et al. (2014). Cross-sectional study of Schmallenberg virus seroprevalence in wild ruminants in Poland at the end of the vector season of 2013. BMC Veterinary Research 10:967.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
  1. Kraatz F. et al. (2015). Deletion mutants of Schmallenberg virus are avirulent and protect from virus challenge. Journal of Virology. 89 (3):1825-1837.
  2. Wernike K.et al. (2015). Schmallenberg virus recurrence, Germany, 2014. Emerging infectious diseases, 21(7), 1202.
  3. Hechinger S. et al. (2014). Single immunization with an inactivated vaccine protects sheep from Schmallenberg virus infection. Veterinary Research, 45:79.
  4. Schulz C. et al. (2014). Infectious Schmallenberg Virus from Bovine Semen, Germany. Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 20, No. 2.
DETECTION OF OTHER BUNYAVIRUSES
  1. Sick F. et al. (2020). Shuni virus-induced meningoencephalitis after experimental infection of cattle. Transbound. Emergía faireDis.;00:1–10
  2. Coupeau D. et al. (2019). Host-dependence of in vitro reassortment dynamics among the Sathuperi and Shamonda Simbuviruses. Emerging Microbes & Infections, 8(1), 381-395.
  3. Oluwayelu D. et al (2018). Neutralizing antibodies against Simbu serogroup viruses in cattle and sheep, Nigeria, 2012–2014. BMC Veterinary Research (2018) 14:277.

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