Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Detection of virus particles resembling circovirus and porcine circovirus 2a (PCV2a) sequences in feces of dogs.
- Journal:
- Research in veterinary science
- Year:
- 2017
- Authors:
- Herbst, Werner & Willems, Hermann
- Affiliation:
- Institute of Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals · Germany
- Species:
- dog
Abstract
During routine electron microscopy of fecal samples from diarrheic dogs dated from 2000 virus particles resembling circovirus in shape and size were detected in two samples (V2177/00; V3374/00). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers specific for porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) amplified DNA recovered from both samples. Sequencing of PCR amplificates (V2177/00) obtained with PCV2-specific primer pairs revealed a genome size of 1768bp. The nucleotide sequence was highly similar (98% nucleotide identity) to the PCV2a reference sequence.
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