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Bovine coronavirus
Synonym(s): coronaviridae, BCV, bovine respiratory disease complex
Introduction
Classification
Taxonomy
- Order: nidovirales.
- Family: coronaviridae.
- Sub-family: betacoronavirus 1.
- Species: bovine coronavirus (BCV).
Etymology
- Lt: corona-crown.
Distribution
- Worldwide.
- Ubiquitous in cattle as determined by seroprevalance data.
Significance
- BCV causes respiratory and enteric infection resulting in three distinct clinical syndromes in cattle:
- calf diarrhea Calf diarrhea: overview
- winter dysentery Winter dysentery, with hemorrhagic diarrhea in adults
- respiratory infections Bovine respiratory disease: approach to an outbreak.
- In adult cattle, BCV infection can be sub-clinical.
- Calves can also become persistently infected.
- BCV is believed to be the causal agent in 30% of all bovine diarrhea cases.
- BCV is involved in the development of bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC).
- The host species affected include cattle, zebu, red deer and roe deer.
- The disease has also been reported in other species such as Samba deer, white-tailed deer, waterbuck, elk and giraffe.
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Clinical Effects
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Further Reading
Publications
Refereed Papers
- Recent references from PubMed and VetMedResource.
- Saif L J (2010) Bovine Respiratory Coronavirus. Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract 26 (2), 349-364
- Ellis J A (2009) Update on viral pathogenesis in BRD. Anim Health Res Rev 10 (2), 149-53 PubMed.
- Kapil S & Basaraba R J (1997) Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, parainfluenza-3, and respiratory coronavirus. Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract 13 (3), 455-69 PubMed.
- Clark M A (1993) Bovine coronavirus. Br Vet J 149 (1), 51-70 PubMed.
- Saif L J (1990) A review of evidence implicating bovine coronavirus in the etiology of winter dysentery in cows: an enigma resolved? Cornell Vet 80 (4), 303-11 PubMed.
- Mark H. van Rooij et al (2023) Vaccination of calves at day of birth with attenuated vaccines against bovine respiratory syncytial virus, bovine parainfluenza type 3 virus and respiratory bovine coronavirus. Vet Vacc .