Prediction survey on the viral diseases of companion animals in Gwangju area, Korea

Abstract

For the monitoring of six viral disease (CIV: canine influenzavirus, CPIV: canine parainfluenzavirus, CHV: canine herpesvirus, CPV2: canine parvovirus type 2, CCoV: canine coronavirus, CNV: canine norovirus) inspections, a total of 300 samples were collected nasal or feces from the companion dogs of animal hospital (n=98) and the abandoned dogs of animal shelters (n=202) in Gwangju, Korea. Using PCR and RT-PCR, CPV2, CPIV and CHV were detected in 55 (18.3%), 11 (3.7%), 1 (0.3%), respectively. CPV2 was highly detected in May, October and November. and CPIV was highly detected in November. But those agents were not detected the virus in March and July. Based on the results of the investigation continuous monitoring for companion and abandoned dogs will be required.

An Improved Duplex Real-Time Quantitative RT-PCR Assay with a Canine Endogenous Internal Positive Control for More Sensitive and Reliable Detection of Canine Parainfluenza Virus 5

“…Based on the diagnostic results of dqRT-PCR for the 269 canine clinical samples, the prevalence of CPIV5 was 5.9% ( Table 5 ). The prevalence of CPIV5 in this study (5.9%) was lower than that in a previous study in Korea for stray dogs (13.1%) [ 44 ], but it was similar to those of previous studies in Korea for hospitalized and sheltered dogs (2.0–11.1%) [ 45 , 46 ]. Moreover, the prevalence of CPIV5 in this study (5.9%) was higher than that in the USA (1.5%) [ 27 ] and Japan (1.8%) [ 25 ], but significantly lower than that in Thailand (35.3%) [ 19 ].…”