Publications by authors named "Adelfa Del Carmen Garcia-Contreras"
Blue-eye disease is an emergent viral swine infection caused by porcine rubulavirus (PoRV). We have developed a qRT-PCR method to detect and quantify expression of the nucleoprotein gene for different PoRV strains. The limit of detection for this assay was 10(2) copies of synthetic RNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorcine rubulavirus is the etiological agent of blue eye disease in pigs. In boars, this virus causes orchitis and epididymitis and reduces seminal quality. The objective of this study was to determine the persistence of porcine rubulavirus in experimentally infected boars.
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- * Out of 1458 samples, contamination was low at 12.9%, while egg viability was relatively high at 65.5%.
- * Results showed no significant impact of garden size on egg presence or viability; however, higher vegetation cover correlated with lower contamination, and increased clay content was linked to lower egg viability.