Volume 14, Number 4—April 2008
Letter
Natural Coinfection with 2 Parvovirus Variants in Dog
Maria João Vieira*†, Eliane Silva*, Costantina Desario‡, Nicola Decaro‡, Júlio Carvalheira*, Canio Buonavoglia‡, and Gertrude Thompson*†
Table
Detection by minor groove binder probe assay of CPV antigenic variants in different specimens from dogs from the same litter (10 weeks old), Portugal, 2006*
| Dog | Vaccines | Rapid test result for CPV | Days in clinic | Clinical course | Samples | TaqMan probe |
CPV | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAM a/b | FAM b/c | VIC a/b | VIC b/c | |||||||
| PT-15/07 | None | – | 7 | Recovered | Feces | + | + | – | – | 2b |
| Lingual swab | + | + | – | – | 2b | |||||
| Serum | + | + | – | – | 2b | |||||
| PT-16/07 | None | + | 7 | Recovered | Feces | + | + | – | – | 2b |
| Lingual swab | + | + | – | – | 2b | |||||
| Serum | + | + | – | – | 2b | |||||
| PT-17/07 | None | + | 7 | Recovered | Feces | – | – | – | + | 2c |
| Lingual swab | – | – | – | + | 2c | |||||
| Serum | – | – | – | + | 2c | |||||
| PT-32/07 | None | – | 7 | Recovered | Feces | + | + | – | + | 2b/2c |
| Lingual swab | + | + | – | + | 2b/2c | |||||
| Serum | + | + | – | + | 2b/2c | |||||
*CPV, canine parvovirus.
