Accepted: 22/03/2015 Abstract CPV causes acute hemorrhagic gastroenteritis and myocarditis in dogs. CPV is prone to genetic evolution and has undergone several mutations that have led to various antigenic variants of CPV-2 that have replaced the original CPV-2. Currently, there are three main antigenic variants, i.e. 2a, 2b and 2c circulating in the dog population worldwide. The genome of CPV i...

Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a significant pathogen of domestic and free-ranging carnivores all over the world. It suddenly appeared at the end of the 1970s and most likely emerged as a variant of the well known feline panleukopenia virus (FPV). During its adaptation to the new host, the domestic-dog, the virus has changed its antigenic profile twice giving rise to two new antigenic types, CPV-2a...

Canine parvovirus 2 (CPV2) is a highly contagious and fatal disease of dogs, causing acute hemorrhagic enteritis and myocarditis. In this study, different mutant of CPV2 prevalent in India have been isolated in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells and characterized by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction endonuclease (RE) mapping. The faecal samples from gastroenteritic dog suspect...

PURPOSE In spite of an extensive vaccination program, parvoviral infections still pose a major threat to the health of dogs. MATERIALS AND METHODS We isolated a novel canine parvovirus (CPV) strain from a dog with enteritis. Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis of the isolate showed that it is a novel type 2b CPV with asparagine at the 426th position and valine at the 555th position in...

This paper proposes a novel concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system with improved irradiation uniformity and system efficiency. CPV technology is very promising its for highly efficient solar energy conversion. A conventional CPV system usually uses only one optical component, such as a refractive Fresnel lens or a reflective parabolic dish, to collect and concentrate solar radiation on the sola...

The cell infection processes and host ranges of canine parvovirus (CPV) and feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) are controlled by their capsid interactions with the transferrin receptors (TfR) on their host cells. Here, we expressed the ectodomains of wild-type and mutant TfR and tested those for binding to purified viral capsids and showed that different naturally variant strains of the viruses w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of dogs entering an animal shelter with protective antibody titers (PATs) for canine distemper virus (CDV) and canine parvovirus (CPV) and identify factors associated with having a PAT. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. ANIMALS 431 dogs admitted to an open-admission municipal animal shelter in north central Florida with a history of infectious disease outbr...

Recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors promote long-term gene transfer in many animal species. Significant effort has focused on the evaluation of rAAV delivery and the immune response in both murine and canine models of neuromuscular disease. However, canines provided for research purposes are routinely vaccinated against canine parvovirus (CPV). rAAV and CPV possess significant hom...

Cancer of the papilla of Vater (CPV) has a significantly better outcome compared to pancreatic cancer (PC) after curative resection. Increasing evidence suggests that prognostic differences are influenced by a different tumor biology. Secreted protein acidic and rich in cystein (SPARC)/osteonectin is a multifunctional matricellular protein involved in cell-matrix interactions and might be invol...