TY - JOUR AU - Kato, Tomoko AU - Yanase, Tohru AU - Suzuki, Moemi AU - Katagiri, Yoshito AU - Ikemiyagi, Kazufumi AU - Takayoshi, Katsunori AU - Shirafuji, Hiroaki AU - Ohashi, Seiichi AU - Yoshida, Kazuo AU - Yamakawa, Makoto AU - Tsuda, Tomoyuki PY - 2016 DA - 2016/06/24 TI - Monitoring for bovine arboviruses in the most southwestern islands in Japan between 1994 and 2014 JO - BMC Veterinary Research SP - 125 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - In Japan, epizootic arboviral infections have severely impacted the livestock industry for a long period. Akabane, Aino, Chuzan, bovine ephemeral fever and Ibaraki viruses have repeatedly caused epizootic abnormal births and febrile illness in the cattle population. In addition, Peaton, Sathuperi, Shamonda and D’Aguilar viruses and epizootic hemorrhagic virus serotype 7 have recently emerged in Japan and are also considered to be involved in abnormal births in cattle. The above-mentioned viruses are hypothesized to circulate in tropical and subtropical Asia year round and to be introduced to temperate East Asia by long-distance aerial dispersal of infected vectors. To watch for arbovirus incursion and assess the possibility of its early warning, monitoring for arboviruses was conducted in the Yaeyama Islands, located at the most southwestern area of Japan, between 1994 and 2014. SN - 1746-6148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0747-z DO - 10.1186/s12917-016-0747-z ID - Kato2016 ER -