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

• 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

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.