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- Title
SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DONKEYS' BLOOD FOR DETECTION OF SOME VIRUS INFECTIONS ON UNGULATES.
- Authors
Chenchev, Iv.; Rusenova, N.; Sandev, N.
- Abstract
The prevalence of antibodies against equine arteritis virus (EAV), equine influenza virus (EIV), equine herpes virus (EHV), equine infectious anemia virus (EIA) and African horse sickness virus (AHS) among donkeys in three regions of Bulgaria was studied. Serum samples of donkeys were tested by ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) for EAV, EHV and AHS, by inhibition hemagglutination test (HI) for EIV and by agar gel immunodiffusion test (test Coggins) for EIA. From 192 samples, 152 (79.1%) had antibodies to EAV (titres ranging from 1:20 to 1:20480), 126 (65.6%) were positive to EIV (1:80 to 1:1280) and 134 (69.7%) to EHV (1:40 to 1:10240). Antibodies against two viruses predominated (43.8% of seroreagents), followed by three (36.5%) and one (17.8%) virus. All sera were negative for EIA and AHS.
- Subjects
BULGARIA; UNGULATES; EQUINE viral arteritis; VIRUS diseases; AFRICAN horse sickness virus; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 2, p82
- ISSN
1312-1723
- Publication type
Article