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Seroepidemiological study of feline coronavirus (FCoV) infection in domiciled cats from Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Pesqui. vet. bras; 39 (2), 2019
Feline coronavirus (FCoV) is responsible for causing one of the most important infectious diseases of domestic and wild felids, the feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), which is an immune-mediated, systemic, progressive and fatal disease. FCoV is highly contagious, and infection is common in domestic fel...

Rational use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in times of COVID-19

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic declared, part of the researchers' efforts has been in studies of repurposing chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), cheap medicines that have been used for decades with indication for malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Chinese and So...

Administration of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine through feeding tubes: new challenges in times of coronavirus pandemic

The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as off-label treatments for covid-19 disease is a resort for critical care patients under enteral nutrition (EN). However, the use of solid pharmaceutical forms of these drugs through feeding tubes can pose a challenge to the health care team. Therefore, we p...

Passive immunity to control Bovine coronavirus diarrhea in a dairy herd in Argentina

Rev. argent. microbiol; 50 (1), 2018
Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) is a viral enteric pathogen associated with calf diarrhea worldwide being, in Argentina, mostly detected in dairy husbandry systems. The aim of the present work was to study if maternal IgG1 antibodies (Abs) to BCoV acquired by colostrum intake modulate the development of BCoV i...

A simple and rapid identification method for newly emerged porcine Deltacoronavirus with loop-mediated isothermal amplification

Biol. Res; 50 (), 2017
BACKGROUND: Porcine Deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a newly emerged enteropathogenic coronavirus that causes diarrhea and mortality in neonatal piglets. PDCoV has spread to many countries around the world, leading to significant economic losses in the pork industry. Therefore, a rapid and sensitive method fo...

MERS-CoV: consideraciones generales para el diagnóstico por laboratorio

La confirmación de un caso probable o sospechoso de infección por MERS-CoV (según criterios clínicos y epidemiológicos), sólo puede ser realizada mediante pruebas de laboratorio. Sin embargo, otros patógenos respiratorios virales (incluyendo, pero no limitado a: Influenza, Virus Sincitial Respirat...