イバラキウイルスの関与が疑われた牛の異常産

内布幸典*  石橋和樹  岸原圭一郎  川鍋真里
横山敦史  高木英二

福岡県中央家畜保健衛生所(〒816-0081 福岡市博多区井相田2-1-3)

(1999年3月10日受付・1999年5月13日受理)

要     約

 1997年9〜10月に福岡県内の乳用牛に,前年同期と比較して約3倍の流産,死産を主徴とする異常産が多発した.異常産母牛では高率(81.8%)にイバラキウイルス(IBAV)中和抗体が検出され,血液・胎盤・胎子からIBAV 14株が分離された.同時期福岡県下で,7戸7例にイバラキ病が発生してIBAVが分離され,調査した100例の未越夏おとり牛では,9月に5例,10月に38例,11月に13例でIBAV中和抗体が陽転し,9月に採材した同居牛,おとり牛およびヌカカからIBAV 3株が分離された.以上の成績から,今回の流死産の多発には,IBAVが関与していたことが示唆された.
―キーワード:流死産,乳牛,イバラキ病,イバラキウイルス.

--------------------日獣会誌 52,565〜569(1999)

*現所属:福岡県農政部畜産課(〒812-8577 福岡市博多区東公園7-7)


Multiple Cases of Abortion and Stillbirth in Cows Possibly due to Ibaraki Virus

Yukinori UCHINUNO*, Kazuki ISHIBASHI, Keiichirou KISHIHARA,
Mari KAWANABE, Atsushi YOKOYAMA and Eiji TAKAGI

Fukuoka Chuo Livestock Hygiene Service Center, 2-1-3 Isouda, Hakata, Fukuoka 816-0081, Japan

SUMMARY

 During a period of September and October 1997, 44 cases of abnormal delivery, mainly abortion and stillbirth, occurred in Fukuoka Prefecture. Neutralizing antibody to Ibaraki virus (IBAV) was detected from 81.8% of the affected maternal cows, and 14 virus strains were isolated from maternal blood samples, placentas and fetal brains using HmLu-1 cell culture. During the same period 7 cases with dysphagia were shown to have neutralizing antibody to IBAV, and 2 virus strains were isolated from blood cells and identified physicochemically and serologically as IBAV. Blood samples collected from 100 sentinel calves spending the first summer season at 50 farms in 1997 showed seroconversion; 5 cases in September, 38 cases in October and 13 cases in November. These findings suggested that IBAV might have been concerned in the multiple cases of abortion and stillbirth.
―Key words : abortion and stillbirth, cow, Ibaraki disease, Ibaraki virus.

--------------------J. Jpn. Vet. Med. Assoc., 52, 366〜368 (1999)

*Present address : Livestock Section of Agricultural Department of Fukuoka Prefecture, 7-7 Higashi Koen, Hakata, Fukuoka 812-8577, Japan