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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, October 2008, p. 1629-1632, Vol. 15, No. 10
1071-412X/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.00232-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Detection of an Antigenic Group 2 Coronavirus in an Adult Alpaca with Enteritis{triangledown}

Suzanne G. Genova,1 Robert N. Streeter,1 Katharine M. Simpson,1 and Sanjay Kapil2*

Department of Clinical Sciences, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078,1 Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Stillwater, Oklahoma 740782

Received 22 June 2008/ Returned for modification 7 July 2008/ Accepted 4 August 2008

ABSTRACT

Antigenic group 2 coronavirus was detected in a fecal sample of an adult alpaca by reverse transcription-PCR. The presence of alpaca coronavirus (ApCoV) in the small intestine was demonstrated by immune histochemistry with an antinucleocapsid monoclonal antibody that reacts with group 2 coronaviruses. Other common causes of diarrhea in adult camelids were not detected. We conclude that nutritional stress may have predisposed the alpaca to severe ApCoV infection.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Farm and Ridge Road, Stillwater, OK 74078. Phone: (405) 744-8809. Fax: (405) 744-8612. E-mail: Sanjay.kapil{at}okstate.edu

FOOTNOTES

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 August 2008.

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, October 2008, p. 1629-1632, Vol. 15, No. 10
1071-412X/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.00232-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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