1. Detection of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in porcine herds of Baja California, Mexico.
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Daniel Gómez-Gómez, Sergio, López-Valencia, Gilberto, Carlomán Herrera-Ramírez, José, Trasviña-Muñoz, Enrique, Javier Monge-Navarro, Francisco, Moreno-Torres, Kattya, Carolina García-Reynoso, Issa, Enrique Medina-Basulto, Gerardo, and Arturo Cabanillas-Gámez, Miguel
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PORCINE reproductive & respiratory syndrome , *ANIMAL herds - Abstract
The objective of this study was to assess the presence of genotype 2 porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV-2) in Baja California (Baja), as well as the standardization of the qRT-PCR technique. A cross-sectional study was conducted from 2016 to 2017 in farms from Baja. It was obtained 97 blood samples from clinically healthy, not-vaccinated boars and sows. Primers were designed and standardize, in order to perform qRT-PCR tests from the buffy coat. Every positive results were confirmed by sequence studies. It was found that 9.3 % of the samples were positive. The positive samples came from 66.6 % of the sampled regions. This study demonstrates the presence of PRRSV-2 in Baja, therefore, it is necessary to conduct epidemiological studies in order to identify the magnitude of the problem and to establish preventive and control measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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