Development of real-time RT-qPCR assays for the typing of two novel bluetongue virus genotypes derived from sheeppox vaccine.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"Funding This research was funded by the 10.13039/501100000277Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [grant number SE2622] and Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) [through projects BBS/E/I/00007035, BBS/E/I/00007036, and BBS/E/I/00007037]. This publication was also supported by the European Virus Archive goes Global (EVAg) project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [grant agreement 871029]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."