Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010
Dispatch
Evolution of Porcine Kobuvirus Infection, Hungary
Gábor Reuter
, Sándor Kecskeméti, and Péter Pankovics
, Sándor Kecskeméti, and Péter Pankovics
Table 1
Incidence of porcine kobuvirus RNA in samples from domestic pigs, Hungary*
| Pig age | Specimen, by date |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Feb |
2008 Nov |
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| Feces | Feces | Serum | ||
| <10 d | 15 (100) | 8 (53.3) | 1 (6.7) | |
| <3–4 wk | 14 (93.3) | 13 (86.7) | 7 (46.7) | |
| <3 mo | 3 (20) | 5 (33.3) | 0 | |
| <6 mo |
7 (46.7) |
6 (40) |
8 (53.3) |
|
| Total |
39/60 (65) |
32/60 (53.3) |
16/60 (26.6) |
|
| *Values are no. (%) or no. positive/no. tested (%). All animals were on the same farm. For each type of sample and age group, 15 specimens were tested. In November 2008, specimens (feces and serum) were collected in pairs from the same animals. | ||||
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