“…After its emergence, the original type CPV‐2 was replaced by three antigenic variants termed CPV‐2a, CPV‐2b and CPV‐2c (Buonavoglia et al, ; Parrish et al, ; Parrish, O’Connell, Evermann, & Carmichael, ). During the years, several amino acid (aa) changes were accounted in the VP2 gene sequence (Battilani et al, ; Geng et al, ; Jeoung, Ahn, & Kim, ; Nakamura et al, ; Truyen, ) and, only recently, the analysis of the NS1 gene sequence was included in the CPV phylogenies (Canuti, Rodrigues, Whitney, & Lang, ; Grecco et al, ; Han et al, ; Li et al, ; Mira et al, ; Pérez et al, ; Zhuang et al, ).…”