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Molecular Detection and Hematological Changes Associated with the Canine Diarrheic Viruses in Pakistan
 
Muhammad Umer Sulehria1, Syed Saleem Ahmad1*, Muhammad Ijaz1, Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq2 and Syed Faheem Ahmad3
 

1Department of Veterinary Medicine,University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
2Department of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
3Department of Small animal Clinical SciencesUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
*Corresponding author: vetsalim@uvas.edu.pk

Abstract   

Enteric viruses like canine coronavirus (CCoV), canine parvovirus (CPV), and canine rotavirus (CRV) cause high morbidity and mortality in dogs, especially in young canines and hence pose great economic losses to dog breeders worldwide. This creates immense psychological distress and trauma for dog owners. CCoV is mistakenly diagnosed as CPV in many cases by clinicians though CCoV causes less severe disease than CPV. Sometimes both CCoV and CPV co-exist in a patient causing severe clinical disease and even death in dogs. In such cases, clinicians are uncertain about the prognosis. CRV is detected in several countries but no research has been carried out on it in Pakistan yet. The objective of this research was to observe if CCoV, CPV, and CRV co-exist in diarrheic dogs. A total of 384 stool samples of dogs, that were reported at different clinics in Lahore, with the complaint of diarrhea, were collected and rendered for rapid detection of the viruses using immuno-chromatographic test kits followed by PCR-confirmation of the positive samples. The individual prevalence of CCoV, CPV and CRV turned out to be 21.6%, 26.3% and 0%, respectively. The prevalence of CCoV and CPV co-infection was 3.4%. Male German shepherd dogs under the age of 1 year are highly prone to get viral diarrhea in July and August.

To Cite This Article: Sulehria MU, Ahmad SS, Ijaz M, Mushtaq MH and Ahmad SF, 2023. Molecular detection and hematological changes associated with the canine diarrheic viruses in Pakistan. Pak Vet J, 43(4): 732-738. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.110

 
   
 

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