Evaluation of equine coronavirus fecal shedding among hospitalized horses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Currently, diagnosis of equine coronavirus (ECoV) relies on the exclusion of other infectious causes of enteric disease along with molecular detection of ECoV in feces or tissue. Although this approach is complete, it is costly and may not always be achievable.

Objective

We hypothesized that the overall fecal shedding of ECoV in hospitalized horses is low. Our objective was to determine whether systemically healthy horses and horses with gastrointestinal disorders shed ECoV in their feces at the time of admission to a referral hospital and after 48 hours of stress associated with hospitalization.

Animals

One-hundred thirty adult horses admitted to the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital for gastrointestinal disease (n = 65) or for imagi

SUBMITTER: Sanz MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6430884 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature