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First retrospective studies with etiological confirmation of porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus infection in Argentina

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Veterinary Research, September 2018
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Title
First retrospective studies with etiological confirmation of porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus infection in Argentina
Published in
BMC Veterinary Research, September 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12917-018-1615-9
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Pablo Enrique Piñeyro, Maria Inez Lozada, Laura Valeria Alarcón, Ramon Sanguinetti, Javier Alejandro Cappuccio, Estefanía Marisol Pérez, Fabio Vannucci, Alberto Armocida, Darin Michael Madson, Carlos Juan Perfumo, Maria Alejandra Quiroga

Abstract

In 2014, a notification of porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) was made by the National Services of Animal Health of Argentina (SENASA) to the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE). The notification was based on a serological diagnosis in a small farm with a morbidity rate of 2.3% without enteric clinical signs. In order to determine if TGEV was circulating before the official report, a retrospective study on cases of neonatal diarrhea was performed. The selection criteria was a sudden increase in mortality in 1- to 21-day-old piglets with watery diarrhea that did not respond to antibiotics. Based on these criteria, three clinical cases were identified during 2010-2015. All animals that were evaluated presented histological lesions consistent with enteric viral infection. The feces and ultrathin sections of intestine that were evaluated by electron microscopy confirmed the presence of round particles of approximately 80 nm in size and characterized by finely granular electrodense nucleoids consistent with complete particles of coronavirus. The presence of the TGEV antigen was confirmed by monoclonal specific immunohistochemistry, and final confirmation of a metabolically-active virus was performed by in situ hybridization to detect a TGE mRNA encoding spike protein. All sections evaluated in this case were negative for PEDV and rotavirus A. This is the first case series describing neonatal mortality with etiological confirmation of TGEV in Argentina. The clinical diagnosis of TGEV infections in endemic regions is challenging due to the epidemiological distribution and coinfection with other enteric pathogens that mask the clinical presentation.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 20%
Student > Master 7 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 14%
Student > Bachelor 6 12%
Other 3 6%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 8 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 17 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2020.
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#6,897,893
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Outputs from BMC Veterinary Research
#520
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#121,480
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Veterinary Research
#10
of 80 outputs
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