Volume 16, Number 1—January 2010
Research
Recombinant Canine Coronaviruses in Dogs, Europe
Nicola Decaro
, Viviana Mari, Gabriella Elia, Diane D. Addie, Michele Camero, Maria Stella Lucente, Vito Martella, and Canio Buonavoglia
, Viviana Mari, Gabriella Elia, Diane D. Addie, Michele Camero, Maria Stella Lucente, Vito Martella, and Canio Buonavoglia
Table 1
Distribution of CCoV genotypes and TGEV-like strains (CCoV-IIb) in dogs in European countries, 2001–2008*
| Country | No. samples | No. or % positive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCoV, no. | CCoV-I no.† | CCoV-II, no.† | CCoV-I+II, no.‡ | CCoV-IIb, no. | CCoV-IIb/II, % | ||
| Italy | 760 | 330 | 54 | 138 | 138 | 34 | 12.32 |
| United Kingdom | 199 | 54 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 10 | 24.39 |
| Greece | 81 | 45 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 3.45 |
| Hungary | 41 | 32 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 31 | 96.87 |
| Portugal | 33 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Spain | 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Belgium | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Romania | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 33.33 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Germany | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Sweden | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| Slovakia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Poland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Slovenia |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Total | 1,172 | 493 | 93 | 218 | 182 | 78 | 19.50 |
*CCoV, canine coronavirus; TGEV, porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus.
†Infections with a single CCoV genotype.
‡Infections with both CCoV genotypes.
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