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1: Vet Microbiol. 2008 Feb 5;127(1-2):136-41. Epub 2007 Aug 19.Click here to read Links

Serological survey of bovine herpesvirus type 1 infection in China.

Yan BF, Chao YJ, Chen Z, Tian KG, Wang CB, Lin XM, Chen HC, Guo AZ.

The State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, China.

To understand the nationwide seroprevalence of bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) infection of cows in China, 1344 sera of dairy cows from 29 provinces and 765 sera from 6 herds in Hubei province were collected with stratified random sampling. Another 483 sera from imported cows were included. The serum antibody was tested by BoHV-1 gG ELISA. The results demonstrated that the overall nationwide seroprevalence was 35.8% (481/1344), while the prevalence for individual province ranged from 12.1% to 77.8%. Although each province had positive samples, the prevalence was clustered in areas based on the cow population size. In Hubei Province, the overall seroprevalence was 22.2% (170/765) while the prevalence for individual farms varied greatly from 0.0% to 41.5%. The sera from imported cows had a moderate prevalence of 21.7% (105/483).

PMID: 17889456 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]