Animals, 2020 Canine distemper is a contagious infectious disease, caused by canine distemper virus (CDV) belonging to Morbillivirus genus, Paramyxoviridae family, representing a serious threat for domestic and wild carnivores [...]
Cristina E. Di Francesco +2 more
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Exposure of dogs and wild carnivores to canine distemper virus, canine parvovirus, Leishmania infantum, and Toxoplasma gondii in the Xingu River basin, Brazilian Amazon: Prevalence, spatial distribution, and association with land cover types [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2023 Infectious diseases transmitted by domestic dogs can have important consequences for wildlife health. This study aimed to investigate the exposure to four selected pathogens in dogs and wild carnivores in six municipalities in the Xingu River Basin (Pará
Felipe FORNAZARI +4 more
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Persistent Morbillivirus Infection Leads to Altered Cortactin Distribution in Histiocytic Sarcoma Cells with Decreased Cellular Migration Capacity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Histiocytic sarcomas represent rare but fatal neoplasms in humans. Based on the absence of a commercially available human histiocytic sarcoma cell line the frequently affected dog displays a suitable translational model.
Vanessa Maria Pfankuche +9 more
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Coinfection by Ureaplasma spp., Photobacterium damselae and an Actinomyces-like microorganism in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) with pleuropneumonia stranded along the Adriatic coast of Italy [PDF]
, 2016 A case of pleuropneumonia is reported in an adult male bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) found stranded in 2014 along the Central Adriatic coast of Italy.
Camm\ue0, Cesare +8 more
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Veterinary SciencesThere is a growing interest in the composition of amniotic fluid (AF) in both humans and animals. In addition to its nutritional and protective functions for the foetus, current knowledge demonstrates that AF also serves advanced diagnostic, prognostic ...
Debora Groppetti +7 more
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Screening red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) for possible viral causes of encephalitis [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Next to various known infectious and non-infectious causes, the aetiology of non-suppurative encephalitis in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) often remains unclear.
Becker, Sabrina +10 more
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Identifying Candidate Genetic Markers of CDV Cross-Species Pathogenicity in African Lions
Pathogens, 2020 Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a multi-host pathogen with variable clinical outcomes of infection across and within species. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to search for viral markers correlated with clinical distemper in African lions.
Julie K. Weckworth +7 more
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Frontiers in Mammal ScienceThe Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) is a semiaquatic mustelid widely distributed across all Brazilian biomes. However, its conservation is increasingly threatened by growing interactions with domestic animals, especially dogs and cats, which ...
Greice Z. Gonchoroski +10 more
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Short communication. Old diseases for new nightmares: distemper strikes back in Italy [PDF]
Veterinaria Italiana, 2014 This article analyses the distemper outbreak that affected the population of Apennine wolves (Canis lupus) in Italy during 2013. Distemper, as rabies, is a well-known viral infectious disease that concerns the canine population worldwide and represents a
Alessio Lorusso, Giovanni Savini
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Future research to underpin successful peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) eradication [PDF]
, 2017 Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is a significant pathogen of small ruminants and is prevalent in much of Africa, the Near and Middle East and Asia.
Bouna Diop +10 more
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