LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Detection of respiratory viruses in shelter dogs maintained under varying environmental conditions

Monteiro, Francielle Liz; Cargnelutti, Juliana Felipetto; Martins, Mathias; Anziliero, Deniz; Erhardt, Magnólia Martins; Weiblen, Rudi; Flores, Eduardo Furtado.

Braz. j. microbiol; 47 (4), 2016

Abstract Three dog shelters in Rio Grande do Sul were investigated for associations between the occurrence of respiratory viruses and shelter environmental conditions. Nasal secretions randomly collected during the cold season were tested via PCR, and this data collection was followed by nucleotide seque...

Enfermedades de los Perros/virología, Ambiente, Infecciones del Sistema Respiratorio/veterinaria, Brasil/epidemiología, Coinfección, Enfermedades de los Perros/epidemiología, Perros, Virus/clasificación, Virus/genética

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Protective roles of free avian respiratory macrophages in captive birds

In the mammalian lung, respiratory macrophages provide front line defense against invading pathogens and particulate matter. In birds, respiratory macrophages are known as free avian respiratory macrophages (FARM) and a dearth of the cells in the avian lung has been purported to foreordain a weak first l...