High detection rate of dog circovirus in diarrheal dogs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diarrhea is one of the most common clinical symptoms reported in companion animal clinics. Dog circovirus (DogCV) is a new mammalian circovirus that is considered to be a cause of alimentary syndromes such as diarrhea, vomiting and hemorrhagic enteritis. DogCV has previously only been identified in the United States, Italy, Germany (GeneBank accession number: KF887949) and China (GeneBank accession number: KT946839). Therefore, the aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of DogCV in Taiwan and to explore the correlation between diarrhea and DogCV infection. Clinical specimens were collected between 2012 and 2014 from 207 dogs suffering from diarrhea and 160 healthy dogs.

Results

In this study, we developed a sensitive and specific SYBR Green-based real

SUBMITTER: Hsu HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912760 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature