Prevalence Study of Canine Infectious Hepatitis in Puppies and Adult Dogs in Basrsh Province, Iraq

Abstract

The present study was planned to investigate about canine adenovirus1 (CAV1) by used sandwich ELISA in puppies and adults dogs, in addition to observed the clinical signs in infected dogs.

The current study conducted on 141 dogs, which included two groups according to age (adults and puppies), the first group adult group (64 dogs) unvaccinated dogs both sexs of different breeds and show the clinical signs of canine infectious hepatitis, in addition to (20 dogs ) apparent clinically heathy as a control group. The second group (27 puppies) both sex, 1- 3 months of age were suffering from the clinical signs of canine infectious hepatitis, beside (20 puppies) unvaccinated were apparent clinically healthy consider as control group.  The study conducted between September 2020 to April 2021 in Basrha province.

The results of ELSIA in the dogs with a clinical symptoms of canine infectious hepatitis (adults and puppies) show (20/27) of puppies were positive to antibodies against CAV while (36/64) in adult dogs (male and females) were positive for antibodies against CAV. In total the prevalence of CAV antibodies in puppies (74.4 %) were higher than adult dogs (56.25).

In total 56 / 91 (61.5%) the sample were positive to antibodies against CAV in adult, puppies and both sex. The infected dogs show varies clinical signs, the clinical signs were sever in puppies than adults dogs.