Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Occurrence of different Canine distemper virus lineages in Italian dogs.
- Journal:
- Veterinaria italiana
- Year:
- 2014
- Authors:
- Balboni, Andrea et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences · Italy
- Species:
- dog
Abstract
This study describes the sequence analysis of the H gene of 7 Canine distemper virus (CDV) strains identified in dogs in Italy between years 2002-2012. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the CDV strains belonged to 2 clusters: 6 viruses were identified as Arctic-like lineage and 1 as Europe 1 lineage. These data show a considerable prevalence of Arctic-like-CDVs in the analysed dogs. The dogs and the 3 viruses more recently identified showed 4 distinctive amino acid mutations compared to all other Arctic CDVs.
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