tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in dogs from Denmark"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú y đề tài: Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in dogs from Denmark. | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Open Access Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in dogs from Denmark Katherine ES Lindhe 1 Danny S Meldgaard2 Per M Jensen3 Geoffrey A Houser4 and Mette Berendt4 Address 1Vangede Small Animal Veterinary Clinic Plantevej 2 DK-2870 Dyssegârd. Denmark 2Buddinge Small Animal Veterinary Clinic Buddinge Hovedgade 222 DK-2880 Bagsv rd Denmark 3Department of Agriculture and Ecology Faculty of Life Sciences University of Copenhagen Thorvaldsensvej 40 opg. 2 DK-1871 Frederiksberg C. Denmark and 4Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences University of Copenhagen Dyrl gevej 16 DK-1870 Frederiksberg C. Denmark Email Katherine ES Lindhe - stipp@ Danny S Meldgaard - dsm@ Per M Jensen - pmj@ Geoffrey A Houser - geh@ Mette Berendt - mbe@ Corresponding author Published 29 December 2009 Received 26 August 2009 . _ . r . J. In m r I r Accepted 29 December 2009 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009 51 56 doi 1751-0147-51-56 This article is available from http content 51 1 56 2009 Lindhe et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Large regions of central and eastern Europe are recognized as areas where tick-borne encephalitis virus TBEV is endemic including countries neighbouring Denmark. It is therefore timely and relevant to determine if TBEV infections occur in Denmark. This study investigates the presence of antibodies against TBEV in a cross-section of the Danish canine population to assess the level of exposure to TBEV and possibly identify TBEV microfoci in Denmark. Methods Blood samples were collected from 125 dogs originating from .