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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hemida MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7169745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Transboundary and emerging diseases 20170313 6
Equine coronaviruses (ECoV) are the only coronavirus known to infect horses. So far, data on ECoV infection in horses remain limited to the USA, France and Japan and its geographic distribution is not well understood. We carried out RT-PCR on 306 nasal and 315 rectal swabs and tested 243 sera for antibodies to detect coronavirus infections in apparently healthy horses in Saudi Arabia and Oman. We document evidence of infection with ECoV and HKU23 coronavirus by RT-PCR. There was no conclusive ev ...[more]