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Co-Circulation Of Canine Chaphamaparvovirus And Canine Parvovirus 2 In Dogs With Diarrhea In Turkey, Ender Dinçer, Mehmet Özkan Timurkan, Pelin Fatoş Polat Dinçer, Hakan Aydın

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Chaphamaparvoviruses, a divergent group of parvoviruses(family Parvoviridae) infect both domestic and wild mammalian and avian species, including bats, chickens and pigs. They have recently been identified using metagenomic analysis from tissue and stool samples of healthy and sick animals. Here, dogs (60 healthy and 43 diarrheal) were investigated for the presence of canine chaphamaparvovirus, canine coronavirus (CCoV), canine adenovirus (CAV), canine distemper virus (CDV) and canine parvovirus 2 (CPV-2) by rectal swabs using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). For chaphamaparvovirus, all the healthy dogs tested negative whereas three of the diarrheal dogs tested positive (3 /103; 2.9%). CPV-2 was also detected …