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Canine parvovirus infection
Author(s) -
McCandlish Irene A. P.,
Thompson Hal,
Fisher E. W.,
Cornwell H. J. C.,
Macartney J.,
Walton I. A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.3.3.5
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science
THE sudden emergence of a virulent parvovirus infection in dogs in the late 1970s will rank in importance in the history of canine medicine with the discovery of the viral aetiology of canine distemper. That a genuinely new virus, previously unknown in the dog population should arise is, in itself, unusual; that the infection should prove to be a killer and cross national, continental and quarantine barriers within a very few months is remarkable. A knowledge of canine parvovirus (CPV) and its two manifestations, enteritis and myocarditis, has become essential learning in any veterinary course and will cause the chapters in veterinary textbooks on infectious diseases, gastroenterology and cardiology to be rewritten. Enteritis due to CPV occurs in weaned pups and older dogs and may result in vomiting, diarrhoea or dysentery and death. Myocarditis only occurs if infection takes place in the perinatal period and may cause death from heart failure in young dogs. The following account of the infection is based on field and experimental studies carried out at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School since the recognition of the infection in 1978.