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Lisbôa,Júlio Augusto Naylor; Isernhagen,Allan Jürgen; Borges,Alexandre Secorun; Amorim,Rogério Martins; Balarin,Mara Regina Stipp; Lunardi,Michele; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo. |
Bovine herpesvirus 5 (BoHV-5) meningoencephalitis is one of the main causes of mortality by encephalopathy in Brazilian cattle herds. However, the neurological signs observed are common to several encephalopathies and do not contribute decisively to a diagnosis. In order to verify hematological and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) changes, blood and CSF samples from naturally and experimentally infected bovines were evaluated. In natural cases (n=17), the samples were collected only once, and in experimental cases (n=7), the samples were sequentially obtained throughout disease progression. While routine methods were used to examine the samples, BoHV-5 infection was confirmed by a PCR assay. Blood analyses did not reveal any consistent hematological alterations... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bovine; Meningoencephalitis; Herpesviruses; Complete blood count; Cerebrospinal fluid; Diagnosis. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700010 |
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Claus,Marlise Pompeo; Lunardi,Michele; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo; Otonel,Rodrigo Alejandro Arellano; Ferracin,Lara Munique; Fungaro,Maria Helena Pelegrinelli; Alfieri,Alice Fernandes. |
The common occurrence of multiple papillomavirus infections has been shown in several studies involving the human host. However, investigations with the aim of identifying mixed papillomavirus infections in cattle have been conducted only recently. In the current work we describe a co-infection with two different bovine papillomavirus (BPV) types that was identified in a bovine teat papilloma. The skin wart was obtained from a cow belonging to a Brazilian beef herd. A PCR assay was carried out with the FAP primer pair, which amplifies a partial segment of the L1 gene (approximately 478 bp), and the amplicon was submitted to direct sequencing. Because nucleotide sequences with satisfactory quality scores were not obtained, the amplicon was cloned and... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Cutaneous papillomatosis; BPV; Co-infection. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700012 |
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Silva-Zacarias,Francielle Gibson da; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo; Spohr,Kledir Anderson Hofstaetter; Lima,Bruna Azevedo de Carvalho; Negrão,Fábio Juliano; Lunardi,Michele; Freitas,Julio Cesar de. |
Chlamydophila abortus (C. abortus) is associated with reproductive problems in cattle, sheep, and goats. Diagnosis of C. abortus using embryonated chicken eggs or immortalized cell lines has a very low sensitivity. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays have been used to detect C. abortus infection in clinical specimens and organ fragments, such as placenta, fetal organs, vaginal secretions, and semen. The aim of this study was to develop a PCR assay for the amplification of an 856-bp fragment of the rRNA gene of the Chlamydiaceae family. The PCR assay was evaluated using organs from 15 mice experimentally infected with the S26/3 reference strain of C. abortus. The results of the rRNA PCR were compared to the results from another PCR system (Omp2 PCR) that... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bovine; Ovine; Caprine; Reproductive failures; Chlamydophila abortus; PCR. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700014 |
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Lunardi,Michele; Claus,Marlise Pompeo; Lisbôa,Júlio Augusto Naylor; Amude,Alexandre Mendes; Headley,Selwyn Arlington; Alfieri,Alice Fernandes; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo. |
Bovine herpesvirus 5 is a DNA virus that has been associated with meningoencephalitis in young cattle. While its clinical diagnosis is obscured by other major diseases that also produce similar neurological disease in cattle, the use of conventional virological techniques is hampered by the establishment of a lifelong latent infection in the host and the difficulty in differentiating BoHV-1 and BoHV-5. The aim of the current report is to describe the clinical and epidemiological aspects observed in a natural outbreak of BoHV-5 meningoencephalitis in a dairy cattle herd from Brazil. In the outbreak, the affected animals consisted of nine calves, which presented three possible forms of the neurological disease, subjectively classified as peracute, acute, and... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Central nervous system; Bovine herpesvirus 5; Multiplex-PCR. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700011 |
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Silva-Zacarias,Francielle Gibson da; Alfieri,Amauri Alcindo; Spohr,Kledir Anderson Hofstaetter; Lima,Bruna Azevedo de Carvalho; Oliveira,Rosângela Claret de; Turilli,Carlo; Lunardi,Michele; Otonel,Rodrigo Alejandro Arellano; Freitas,Julio Cesar de. |
Chlamydophila abortus (C. abortus) infection is related to reproductive failure in domestic ruminants. Although it has not been well characterized worldwide, this pathogen has already been identified in some European countries and in the USA. In Brazil, preliminary studies have shown serological evidence of C. abortus infection in herds with low antibody prevalence. Until now, the identification of C. abortus in biological samples from females presenting reproductive failures has not been described in Brazilian herds of domestic ruminants. The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of the C. abortus in a collection of abortions from cattle (n=85), sheep (n=12), and goats (n=8), in samples of vaginal mucus from cows (n=13), sheep (n=90), and goats... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Small ruminants; Chlamydophila abortus; Abortion; Vaginal mucus; Semen. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000700015 |
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Tozato,Claudia C.; Lunardi,Michele; Alfieri,Alice F.; Otonel,Rodrigo A.A.; Di Santis,Giovana W.; Alcântara,Brígida K. de; Headley,Selwyn A.; Alfieri,Amauri A.. |
This study describes the clinical, histopathological, and virological characterization of teat papillomatosis from Brazilian dairy cattle herds. Four types of bovine papillomavirus were identified (BPV6, 7, 9, and 10); one of these (BPV7) is being detected for the first time in Brazilian cattle. |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Papilloma; BPV; Genotyping. |
Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822013000300039 |
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