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Prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in rabbits
B J Deeb1, R F DiGiacomo, J F Evermann
1Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
Laboratory Animal Science
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
Antibodies to coronavirus were detected by an indirect fluorescent antibody test in rabbit sera from six rabbitries. The prevalence ranged from 3 to 40% in different rabbitries and most seropositive rabbits were more than 4 months old. A rabbitry with high prevalence of antibodies and high incidence of diarrhea could serve as a source of virus and aid in studying the natural history of coronavirus infection in rabbits.