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Vet Microbiol ; 127(1-2): 136-41, 2008 Feb 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17889456

ABSTRACT

To understand the nationwide seroprevalence of bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) infection of cows in China, 1344 sera of dairy cows from 29 provinces and 765 sera from 6 herds in Hubei province were collected with stratified random sampling. Another 483 sera from imported cows were included. The serum antibody was tested by BoHV-1 gG ELISA. The results demonstrated that the overall nationwide seroprevalence was 35.8% (481/1344), while the prevalence for individual province ranged from 12.1% to 77.8%. Although each province had positive samples, the prevalence was clustered in areas based on the cow population size. In Hubei Province, the overall seroprevalence was 22.2% (170/765) while the prevalence for individual farms varied greatly from 0.0% to 41.5%. The sera from imported cows had a moderate prevalence of 21.7% (105/483).


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Antibodies, Viral/blood , Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/physiology , Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis/epidemiology , Animals , Cattle , China/epidemiology , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/veterinary , Female , Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis/blood , Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis/virology , Seroepidemiologic Studies
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Vet Parasitol ; 149(1-2): 72-6, 2007 Oct 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17706874

ABSTRACT

The first identification of Neospora caninum infection in the tissues of aborted bovine foetuses in China is reported. Aborted foetuses were collected from 16 dams, and 12 of the dams had high serum antibody titres to N. caninum determined using an ELISA test kit. The Nc-5 gene of N. caninum was amplified from DNA samples extracted from brains of four aborted foetuses using a Neospora-specific PCR assay, confirming N. caninum infection in the aborted foetuses. Histology and immunohistochemistry showed thick-walled (3 microm) tissue cyst in 25 microm diameter in the brain of one foetus. Non-suppurative encephalomyelitis, focal haemorrhage, hepatic lesions consisted of lymphocyte infiltration and haemorrhage were also found in the heart and lung of the foetus. Thus, we have confirmed for the first time the infection of N. caninum in aborted foetuses of cattle in the People's Republic of China.


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Aborted Fetus/parasitology , Cattle Diseases/parasitology , Coccidiosis/veterinary , Neospora/isolation & purification , Aborted Fetus/pathology , Animals , Antibodies, Protozoan/blood , Brain/parasitology , Cattle , Cattle Diseases/diagnosis , China/epidemiology , Coccidiosis/diagnosis , Coccidiosis/parasitology , Female , Genes, Protozoan/genetics , Molecular Sequence Data , Neospora/genetics , Polymerase Chain Reaction/veterinary
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