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Antigenic analysis of canine parvovirus strains isolated in Italy
D Buonavoglia1, A Cavalli, A Pratelli
1Institute of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Messina, Italy.
The New Microbiologica
|August 18, 2000
Abstract:
Eighty-two canine parvovirus type 2 strains isolated in Italy from pups with severe enteritis were characterizated using four monoclonal antibodies. Sixty-eight isolates resulted CPV-2a, whereas the other fourteen were a CPV-2b variant. The diffusion of CPV-2 variants in the Italian dog population is quite similar to that reported in the United Kingdom and Australia (CPV-2a more prevalent) and different from the epidemiological conditions of the USA and other countries where CPV-2b is more widespread.