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1 April 2010 Antibodies to Pathogenic Livestock Viruses in a Wild Vicuñe;a (Vicugna vicugna) Population in the Argentinean Andean Altiplano
Gisela Marcoppido, Viviana Parreñe;o, Bibiana Vilá
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Abstract

Serum samples from 128 wild vicuñe; as (Vicugna vicugna) were tested for antibodies (Ab) to rotavirus (RV), bovine parainfluenza virus 3 (BPIV-3), bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1), bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV-1), foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), bluetongue virus (BTV), equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1), and influenza A virus equine (EIV). Samples were collected in Cieneguillas Province of Jujuy, in northern Argentina. Feces from 44 vicuñe; as were also collected to investigate RV shedding. Llamas (Lama glama) and domestic cattle (Bos taurus) from the area studied also were tested for antibodies to these viruses. Antibodies against RV (100%) and BPIV-3 (37%) were detected in the vicuñe; as sampled. No RV antigen was detected in any of the fecal samples tested. One vicuñe; a was positive for Ab to BHV-1 (0.8%) and another for BVDV-1 (0.8%). The Ab prevalences detected in llamas were: 100% (16/16) for RV, 47% (8/17) for BPIV-3, 17.6% (3/17) for BHV-1, and 5.9% (1/17) for BVDV-1. However, domestic cattle had high antibody prevalences for RV and BPIV-3, 100% (13/13) and 73% (11/15), respectively, but were negative for Ab to BHV-1 and BVDV. No antibodies against FMDV, BTV, EHV-1, or EIV were detected in wild vicuñe; as or domestic species. Because no data of viral circulation on wild vicuñe; as are available, this report represents the first evidence of viral infection in wild vicuñe; as from the Argentinean Andean Puna.

Gisela Marcoppido, Viviana Parreñe;o, and Bibiana Vilá "Antibodies to Pathogenic Livestock Viruses in a Wild Vicuñe;a (Vicugna vicugna) Population in the Argentinean Andean Altiplano," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 46(2), 608-614, (1 April 2010). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-46.2.608
Received: 3 April 2008; Published: 1 April 2010
KEYWORDS
Antibodies, Argentinean Puna, prevalence, serology, viral disease, wild vicuñ
as
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