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SUBMITTER: Nemoto M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579792 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nemoto Manabu M Oue Yasuhiro Y Higuchi Tohru T Kinoshita Yuta Y Bannai Hiroshi H Tsujimura Koji K Yamanaka Takashi T Kondo Takashi T
Acta veterinaria Scandinavica 20150922
<h4>Background</h4>Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is considered to be a diarrheic pathogen in foals. In central Kentucky in the United States, it has been shown that approximately 30 % of thoroughbred foals are infected with ECoV and thus it is considered widely prevalent. In contrast, the epidemiology of ECoV and its relationship to diarrhea in foals are poorly understood in Japan. We investigated ECoV in rectal swabs collected from thoroughbred foals in Japan.<h4>Results</h4>We collected 337 rectal ...[more]