Serological Evidence of Common Equine Viral Infections in a Semi-Isolated, Unvaccinated Population of Hucul Horses
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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Ethics Statement
2.2. Specimen
2.3. Virus Isolation
2.4. Serology
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Virus Tested | Number of Positive Results/Number of the Horses Tested | Percentage of Seropositive Horses (%) |
---|---|---|
equine arteritis virus | 0/20 | 0 |
equine herpes virus 1 | 12/20 | 60 |
equine rhinitis A virus | 1/20 | 5 |
equine influenza A virus H7N7 | 13/20 | 65 |
equine influenza A virus H3N8 | 12/20 | 60 |
Usutu virus | 5/20 | 25 |
West Nile virus | 0/20 | 0 |
equine infectious anaemia virus | 0/20 | 0 |
No. | Sex | Age (Years) | Obtained Titres of Antibodies | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EAV | EHV1 | ERAV | H7N7 | H3N8 | USUV | WNV | EIAV | |||
1 | mare | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 40 | 0 | 0 |
2 | mare | 9 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 80 | 0 | 0 |
3 | mare | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
4 | mare | 10 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
5 | mare | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6 | mare | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
7 | mare | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
8 | mare | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9 | mare | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 | mare | 9 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
11 | stallion | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
12 | stallion | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
13 | stallion | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
14 | stallion | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
15 | stallion | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
16 | stallion | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
17 | stallion | 9 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
18 | stallion | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
19 | stallion | 9 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
20 | stallion | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Bażanów, B.; Pawęska, J.T.; Pogorzelska, A.; Florek, M.; Frącka, A.; Gębarowski, T.; Chwirot, W.; Stygar, D. Serological Evidence of Common Equine Viral Infections in a Semi-Isolated, Unvaccinated Population of Hucul Horses. Animals 2021, 11, 2261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082261
Bażanów B, Pawęska JT, Pogorzelska A, Florek M, Frącka A, Gębarowski T, Chwirot W, Stygar D. Serological Evidence of Common Equine Viral Infections in a Semi-Isolated, Unvaccinated Population of Hucul Horses. Animals. 2021; 11(8):2261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082261
Chicago/Turabian StyleBażanów, Barbara, Janusz T. Pawęska, Aleksandra Pogorzelska, Magdalena Florek, Agnieszka Frącka, Tomasz Gębarowski, Wojciech Chwirot, and Dominika Stygar. 2021. "Serological Evidence of Common Equine Viral Infections in a Semi-Isolated, Unvaccinated Population of Hucul Horses" Animals 11, no. 8: 2261. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082261