Re-emergence of canine distemper in wildlife in Belgium
| Autor: | Daniel Desmecht, Mutien-Marie Garigliany, Julien Paternostre, Annick Linden, Rosario Volpe, Michaël Sarlet, Christophe Lesenfants, Mathieu Franssen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
040301 veterinary sciences Vulpes animal diseases Wildlife Foxes Meles Communicable Diseases Emerging Polymerase Chain Reaction 0403 veterinary science 03 medical and health sciences Belgium parasitic diseases medicine Animals Distemper Distemper Virus Canine General Veterinary biology Canine distemper 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology 030104 developmental biology RNA Viral Raccoons Neurological impairment |
| Zdroj: | The Veterinary record. 182(15) |
| ISSN: | 2042-7670 |
| Popis: | Between 30 and 50 red foxes ( Vulpes vulpes ) are submitted each year to the University of Liege’s veterinary faculty for postmortem examination. Occasionally, other wild carnivores such as European badgers ( Meles meles ) and raccoons ( Procyon lotor ) are also submitted. A PCR-based screening for canine distemper virus (CDV)1 has been performed systematically. Since 2014, all submitted cases tested negative for CDV. On November 14, 2017, a wild raccoon with severe neurological impairment was euthanased in a revalidation centre, near the Liege veterinary faculty. … |
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