Investigation of the presence of canine adenovirus (CAdV) in owned dogs in Northern Italy.
Res Vet Sci
; 97(3): 631-6, 2014 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
The use of a modified live canine adenovirus (CAdV) vaccine has greatly reduced the incidence of infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) in dogs. Nevertheless, cases of CAdV type 1 and 2 (CAdV-1 and CAdV-2) infection have been recently reported posing questions about the epidemiological situation of CAdV in dogs. In order to assess the presence of CAdV, samples from 51 dogs presented at a Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Bologna, Italy, for reasons unrelated with CAdV infection, were tested with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for CAdV. Thirty dogs (58.8%) were PCR positive for CAdV-2 infection and four of them (7.8%) were positive for CAdV-1. Sequence analysis performed on the obtained PCR products suggests that a genetically stable CAdV-1 strain and different CAdV-2 strains circulate in the canine population examined and that coinfections are relatively frequent.
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Assunto principal:
Infecções por Adenoviridae
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Adenovirus Caninos
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Doenças do Cão
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Coinfecção
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Animals
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Europa
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En
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Res Vet Sci
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2014
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Article