بررسی میزان شیوع دیستمپر در سگ های اسهالی شهرستان اهواز

Canine distemper is a highly contagious viral disease that involves multi-systemic of dogs. thisstudy was performed to determine the prevalence of canine distemper virus (cdv) in referred diarrheicdogs to veterinary hospital of shahid chamran university of ahvaz, in khuzestan province, iran.fecal samples were collected from 78 diarrheic dogs between 2005 and 2007. the studied dogs weredivided into two age groups ( < 6 months and > 6 months), four different breeds (terriers, germanshepherds,doberman pinschers and hybrids) and based on clinical signs into two groups (hemorrhagic andnon-hemorrhagic diarrhea). prevalence to cdv antigens in these dogs was 8.97% (7 of 78) using immunochromatographyassay (ic) indicating that this virus is endemic in this area. the infection had moreprevalence in dogs less than 6 months (9.75%; 4 of 41) and in breeds of german shepherd (15.8%; 3 of19) and hybrids (10.53%; 2 of 19), but there were no significant differences between different age andbreed groups. nevertheless, infection was significantly higher in hemorrhagic diarrheic dogs (20.7%; 6of 29) (p < 0.05). cbc in most of dogs that affected to canine distemper virus infection was as lymphopeniaand neutropenia (71.43%; 5 of 7). only one dog had vaccination history against distemper virus.this study showed that hemorrhagic diarrhea and lack of vaccination were as an important sign and riskfactor for canine distemper infections in dogs.keywords: canine distemper, immunochromatography, diarrhea, dog, ahvaz