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==Description==
 
==Description==
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Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is a pestivirus that infects cattle worldwide. BVDV causes significant economic losses in both dairy and beef cattle due to its effects on production and reproduction.
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Bovine viral diarrhoea is a viral disease that affects cattle worldwide. Caused by a pestivirus, it gives rise to significant economic losses in both dairy and beef cattle through its effects on production and reproduction. Bovine viral diarrhoea virus can lead to a variety of clinical outcomes that ranging from subclinical infections to the more severe presentations including abortion, infertility, and the fatal mucosal disease. The condition is highly immuno-suppressive and secondary respiratory and enteric complications often occur.
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) is a pestivirus infection of cattle. It causes a variety of clinical outcomes that range from the inapparent (sub-clinical) to the more severe including abortion, infertility, an immuno-suppression that underlies calf respiratory and enteric diseases, and most dramatically, the fatal mucosal disease.
      
==Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus==
 
==Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus==
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