Molecular Detection and Hematological Changes
Associated with the Canine Diarrheic Viruses in Pakistan
Muhammad Umer Sulehria1,
Syed Saleem Ahmad1*,
Muhammad Ijaz1,
Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq2
and Syed Faheem Ahmad3
1Department of Veterinary Medicine,University of
Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan 2Department of Epidemiology and Public
HealthUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore,
Pakistan. 3Department of Small animal Clinical
SciencesUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore,
Pakistan. *Corresponding author:
vetsalim@uvas.edu.pk
Abstract
Enteric viruses like canine
coronavirus (CCoV), canine parvovirus (CPV), and canine rotavirus (CRV) cause
high morbidity and mortality in dogs, especially in young canines and hence pose
great economic losses to dog breeders worldwide. This creates immense
psychological distress and trauma for dog owners. CCoV is mistakenly diagnosed
as CPV in many cases by clinicians though CCoV causes less severe disease than
CPV. Sometimes both CCoV and CPV co-exist in a patient causing severe clinical
disease and even death in dogs. In such cases, clinicians are uncertain about
the prognosis. CRV is detected in several countries but no research has been
carried out on it in Pakistan yet. The objective of this research was to observe
if CCoV, CPV, and CRV co-exist in diarrheic dogs. A total of 384 stool samples
of dogs, that were reported at different clinics in Lahore, with the complaint
of diarrhea, were collected and rendered for rapid detection of the viruses
using immuno-chromatographic test kits followed by PCR-confirmation of the
positive samples. The individual prevalence of CCoV, CPV and CRV turned out to
be 21.6%, 26.3% and 0%, respectively. The prevalence of CCoV and CPV
co-infection was 3.4%. Male German shepherd dogs under the age of 1 year are
highly prone to get viral diarrhea in July and August.
To Cite This Article:
Sulehria MU,
Ahmad SS,
Ijaz M, Mushtaq MH and
Ahmad SF, 2023. Molecular detection and hematological changes
associated with the canine diarrheic viruses in Pakistan. Pak Vet J, 43(4): 732-738.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.110