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Pseudorabies Dogs:Causes, Treatment, and Related Symptoms

Dog Medicine
Overview
Pseudorabies is an infectious disease caused by pseudorabies virus. Although pseudorabies originally means "pseudorabies" or "rabies-like", pseudorabies is not related to rabies virus, but is a herpesvirus.

Causes of Pseudorabies Dogs

PRV is highly contagious. In most cases, the disease was transmitted by nasal to nasal contact. Since PRV is abundant in the nasal and oral areas, nasal to nasal contact is the most common type of transmission.
 

Pseudorabies Dogs Symptoms

The incubation period is 1 to 8 days, and in some cases up to 3 weeks. The most characteristic symptom is an itchy irritation within the range of viral invasion and sometimes self-mutilation due to constant scratching and self-biting. At the beginning of the disease, the dog is indifferent, and then it becomes restless, refuses food, curled up and sits, often changes the place of sitting, sometimes the body temperature rises, and vomiting often occurs. Dogs with digestive tract infection often salivation and dysphagia. At first the diseased dog licks the wound on the skin, and later the itching sensation increases, scratching and licking the itchy part of the bite causes swelling of the surrounding tissue, or causes deep trauma. Sometimes this symptom is lacking, but the sick dog groans and seems to have pain somewhere in the body. Rabies-like symptoms were also observed in some cases. dyspnea. They often die quickly.
 

Diagnostic Criteria for Pseudorabies Dogs

1. Virus isolation and identification

2. Immunofluorescence antibody test

3. Nucleic acid probe detection technology
 

Pseudorabies Dogs Treatment

Currently, there is no effective drug for the treatment of PR. In addition to routine isolation, disinfection, and control of personnel movement, vaccination is an important measure to prevent the prevalence of PR. Lens[3] reported that the low virulence PR vaccine developed by DNA recombinant technology was safe and effective in field immunization, and the pigs vaccinated with the vaccine were infected again. At present, inactivated vaccine and attenuated vaccine are mainly used to prevent PR in China, which have good immune effects.
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