Junsheng Dong, Wai Ning Tiffany Tsui, Xue Leng, Jinping Fu, Molly Lohman, Joseph Anderson, Vaughn Hamill, Nanyan Lu, Elizabeth Poulsen Porter, Mark Gray, Tesfaalem Sebhatu, Susan Brown, Roman Pogranichniy, Heng Wang, Lance Noll, Jianfa Bai
Canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD) is a complicated respiratory syndrome in dogs [1], [2], [3]. A panel PCR was developed [4] to detect nine pathogens commonly associated with CIRD: Mycoplasma cynos, Mycoplasma canis, Bordetella bronchiseptica; canine adenovirus type 2, canine herpesvirus 1, canine parainfluenza virus, canine distemper virus, canine influenza virus and canine respiratory coronavirus [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]. To evaluate diagnostic performance of the assay, 740 nasal swab and lung tissue samples were collected and tested with the new assay, and compared to an older version of the assay detecting the same pathogens except that it does not differentiate the two Mycoplasma species...
December 2023: MethodsX