Short communication. Occurrence of different Canine distemper virus lineages in Italian dogs

This study describes the sequence analysis of the H gene of 7 Canine distemper virus (CDV) strains identified in dogs in Italy between years 2002-2012. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the CDV strains belonged to 2 clusters: 6 viruses were identified as Arctic‑like lineage and 1 as Europe 1 lin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrea Balboni, Giorgia De Lorenzo Dandola, Alessandra Scagliarini, Santino Prosperi, Mara Battilani
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale 2014
Subjects:
Arctic-like
Canine distemper virus
Dog
Europe 1
Gene H
Italy
Animal culture
SF1-1100
Veterinary medicine
SF600-1100
Arctic
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/6cdf30d3247e43f2bce1e2f6bc0dd8e6
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Summary:This study describes the sequence analysis of the H gene of 7 Canine distemper virus (CDV) strains identified in dogs in Italy between years 2002-2012. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the CDV strains belonged to 2 clusters: 6 viruses were identified as Arctic‑like lineage and 1 as Europe 1 lineage. These data show a considerable prevalence of Arctic‑like‑CDVs in the analysed dogs. The dogs and the 3 viruses more recently identified showed 4 distinctive amino acid mutations compared to all other Arctic CDVs.

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