SEROLOGIC, MOLECULAR, AND PATHOLOGIC SURVEY OF PSEUDORABIES VIRUS INFECTION IN HUNTED WILD BOARS (SUS SCROFA) IN ITALY

• Published in: Journal of wildlife diseases Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 559 - 565
• Main Authors: Verin, Ranieri, Varuzza, Paolo, Mazzei, Maurizio, Poli, Alessandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Business Office, 810 East 10th St., Lawrence, Kansas 66044-8897, USA Wildife Disease Association 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Aujeszky's disease; Disease Reservoirs - virology; Female; Italy - epidemiology; Male; PATHOLOGY; PCR; Pseudorabies - epidemiology; Pseudorabies - pathology; Pseudorabies - virology; pseudorabies virus; Serologic Tests - veterinary; serosurvey; Sus scrofa; viral antigen immunohistochemistry; viral transmission; virus molecular characterization; Italy; viral antigen immunohistochemistry; viral transmission; serosurvey; pseudorabies virus; virus molecular characterization; Sus scrofa; Aujeszky's disease; PCR

To investigate pseudorabies-virus (PrV) –antibody and viral-DNA prevalence, we collected blood, nasal and genital swabs, and tonsillar and lymph-node tissue samples from 139 wild boars (Sus scrofa; 39 piglets, 30 juveniles, and 70 adults), during the hunting season of 2010–2011 in Tuscany, Central I...