id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258696-01wj76es Decaro, Nicola Experimental infection of dogs with a novel strain of canine coronavirus causing systemic disease and lymphopenia 2008-04-30 .txt text/plain 3428 177 61 The dogs, three 2.5-month-old and two 6-month-old pups, were successfully infected, shedding viral RNA with their faeces for the entire observation period (21 days) and displaying systemic clinical signs resembling those observed during the course of natural infection. At postmortem examination, remarkable lesions were observed in the internal organs of the euthanized pups, that tested positive for CCoV by real-time RT-PCR and virus isolation on cell cultures. Unexpectedly, CCoV type II RNA was detected at very high titres in the internal organs of the dead pups and the virus (strain CB/05) was isolated on canine cell cultures. (last day of observation) reaching the maximal mean value of 6.79 Â 10 5 RNA copy numbers/ml of template at day 10 p.i. Surprisingly, CCoV RNA was never detected in the blood of the 6-month-old pups, as well as in the euthanized animals, in whose organs remarkable viral RNA titres were found. ./cache/cord-258696-01wj76es.txt ./txt/cord-258696-01wj76es.txt