The Prevalence, Coexistence, and Correlations Between Seven Pathogens Detected by a PCR Method from South-Western Poland Dairy Cattle Suffering from Bovine Respiratory Disease

Overview

Journal Microorganisms

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 Jul 27

PMID 35893545

Authors

Agnieszka Lachowicz-Wolak

Malgorzata D Klimowicz-Bodys

Katarzyna Ploneczka-Janeczko

Marek Bykowy

Magdalena Siedlecka

Jagoda Cinciala

Krzysztof Rypula

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Abstract

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a very important disease that contributes to economic losses in dairy and beef cattle breeding worldwide. The molecular testing of material from 296 calves showing BRD symptoms from 74 dairy herds located in south-western Poland was performed in 2019-2021. Molecular tests were performed using a commercial kit "VetMAX Ruminant Respiratory Screening Kit" (Thermo Fisher Scientific) for the simultaneous detection of genetic material of seven pathogens responsible for BRD. At least one pathogen was detected in 95.95% of herds. The overall prevalence was: 87.84%, 44.59%, bovine coronavirus (BcoV) 32.43%, 29.73%, 28.38%, bovine parainfluenza virus type 3 (BPIV-3) 13.51%, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) 10.81%. Twenty-nine configurations of pathogen occurrences were found. Bacterial infections were the most frequently recorded as 56.7% of all results. Coinfections mainly consisted of two pathogens. Not a single purely viral coinfection was detected. The most frequent result was a single infection accounting for 18.31% of all results. The statistically significant correlation ( = 0.001) with the highest strength of effect (ϕ 0.38) was between and .

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