- Tytuł:
- Prevalence of Bovine herpesvirus type 4 in aborting dairy cows
- Autorzy:
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Cvetojevic, D.
Savic, B.
Milicevic, V.
Kureljusic, B.
Jezdimirovic, N.
Jakic-Dimic, D.
Pavlovic, M.
Spalevic, Lj. - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/32010.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Opis:
- Bovine herpesvirus type 4 (BHV-4) is related to many different conditions: infertility, postpartal metritis, vulvovaginitis, mastitis, encephalitis, calf pneumonia, keratoconjunctivitis, cutaneous lesions, digital dermatitis and abortion. In this study a retrospective PCR examination of 100 extracted DNA samples from aborting cows was performed in order to determine: prevalence of BHV-4 in abortive cattle, whether coinfections BHV-4 with other abortifacient pathogens are present in the same sample and to determine the month of gestation when BHV-4 associated abortions were detected. Out of 100 examined samples, the BHV-4 genome was detected in 21 samples (21%). In two samples we detected coinfection of BHV-4 with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and in one with Neospora caninum. Most of the BHV-4-associated abortions were detected during the seventh month of gestation. It was concluded that an active BHV-4 infection was present among cows that aborted on the farms examined. The high prevalence of the BHV-4 genome in abortion material suggests that this virus may have cause the abortions. Further studies and examinations are needed to establish causative connection between presence of BHV-4 and abortion.
- Źródło:
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Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences; 2016, 19, 4
1505-1773 - Pojawia się w:
- Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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