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Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014
BACKGROUND: Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is considered to be a diarrheic pathogen in foals. In central Kentucky in the United States, it has been shown that approximately 30 % of thoroughbred foals are infected with ECoV and thus it is considered widely prevalent. In contrast, the epidemiology of ECoV...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26395082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-015-0149-4 |
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author | Nemoto, Manabu Oue, Yasuhiro Higuchi, Tohru Kinoshita, Yuta Bannai, Hiroshi Tsujimura, Koji Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, Takashi |
author_facet | Nemoto, Manabu Oue, Yasuhiro Higuchi, Tohru Kinoshita, Yuta Bannai, Hiroshi Tsujimura, Koji Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, Takashi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is considered to be a diarrheic pathogen in foals. In central Kentucky in the United States, it has been shown that approximately 30 % of thoroughbred foals are infected with ECoV and thus it is considered widely prevalent. In contrast, the epidemiology of ECoV and its relationship to diarrhea in foals are poorly understood in Japan. We investigated ECoV in rectal swabs collected from thoroughbred foals in Japan. RESULTS: We collected 337 rectal swabs from 307 diarrheic foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido, the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region in Japan, between 2012 and 2014. In addition, 120 rectal swabs were collected from 120 healthy foals in 2012. These samples were tested by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification and a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. All samples collected from diarrheic foals were negative, and only three samples (2.5 %) collected from healthy foals were positive for ECoV. Compared with central Kentucky, ECoV is not prevalent among thoroughbred foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido. CONCLUSION: ECoV is not prevalent and was not related to diarrhea in thoroughbred foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido between 2012 and 2014. |
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spelling | pubmed-45797922015-09-24 Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 Nemoto, Manabu Oue, Yasuhiro Higuchi, Tohru Kinoshita, Yuta Bannai, Hiroshi Tsujimura, Koji Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, Takashi Acta Vet Scand Brief Communication BACKGROUND: Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is considered to be a diarrheic pathogen in foals. In central Kentucky in the United States, it has been shown that approximately 30 % of thoroughbred foals are infected with ECoV and thus it is considered widely prevalent. In contrast, the epidemiology of ECoV and its relationship to diarrhea in foals are poorly understood in Japan. We investigated ECoV in rectal swabs collected from thoroughbred foals in Japan. RESULTS: We collected 337 rectal swabs from 307 diarrheic foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido, the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region in Japan, between 2012 and 2014. In addition, 120 rectal swabs were collected from 120 healthy foals in 2012. These samples were tested by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification and a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. All samples collected from diarrheic foals were negative, and only three samples (2.5 %) collected from healthy foals were positive for ECoV. Compared with central Kentucky, ECoV is not prevalent among thoroughbred foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido. CONCLUSION: ECoV is not prevalent and was not related to diarrhea in thoroughbred foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido between 2012 and 2014. BioMed Central 2015-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4579792/ /pubmed/26395082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-015-0149-4 Text en © Nemoto et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Nemoto, Manabu Oue, Yasuhiro Higuchi, Tohru Kinoshita, Yuta Bannai, Hiroshi Tsujimura, Koji Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, Takashi Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title | Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title_full | Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title_fullStr | Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title_full_unstemmed | Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title_short | Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 |
title_sort | low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of japan, 2012–2014 |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26395082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-015-0149-4 |
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