Investigation of the presence of human or bovine respiratory syncytial virus in the lungs of mink (Neovison vison) with hemorrhagic pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Abstract

BackgroundHemorrhagic pneumonia is a disease of farmed mink (Neovison vison) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The disease is highly seasonal in Danish mink with outbreaks occurring almost exclusively in the autumn. Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been shown to augment infection with P. aeruginosa in mice and to promote adhesion of P. aeruginosa to human respiratory cells.FindingsWe tested 50 lung specimens from mink with hemorrhagic pneumonia for bovine RSV by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and for human RSV by a commercial real-time PCR. RSV was not found.ConclusionsThis study indicates that human and bovine RSV is not a major co-factor for development of hemorrhagic pneumonia in Danish mink.

Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences

“…Furthermore studies reported that clinical outbreaks of this type of pneumonic disease in farmed mink could also be associated with hemolytic strains of Escherichia coli ( E . coli) (Salomonsen et al 2013). So far HP research has considered only a single or a limited number of parameters There is thus an urgent that needs to conduct more ambitious researches especially on co-infections of P .…”