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Table 4 Canine diarrhea panel from diarrheic dogs of Brazil, United States, Australia Canada, UK and Japan

From: Presence of infectious agents and co-infections in diarrheic dogs determined with a real-time polymerase chain reaction-based panel

Infectious agent

Brazil

US

Australia

Canada

UK

Japan

 

Prevalence

Canine distemper virus

8.7%

1.4%***

2.3%**

1.6%***

2.5%**

1.0%***

Salmonella spp.

1.0%

2.2%

4.6%

5.0%

0.0%

3.0%

Canine parvovirus type 2

34.6%

1.9%***

6.8%***

8.0%***

35.1%

9.0%***

Cryptosporidium spp.

7.7%

5.4%

4.0%

14.0%

34.7%***

9.0%

Giardia spp.

13.5%

10.5%

10.8%

14.0%

20.2%

10.0%

Canine coronavirus

11.5%

13.9%

5.1%*

11.0%

16.9%

26.0%***

C. perfringens alpha toxin

38.5%

36.2%

45.6%

46.0%

51.2%*

21.0%***

Overall infection rate

68.3%

54.5%**

58.4%

52.0%**

51.7%**

49.6%***

Coinfection rate

45.1%

24.9%***

31.3%*

34.0%*

41.9%

35.3%

Samples included

n = 104

n = 7829

n = 526

n = 2855

n = 674

n = 486

  1. *Significantly (P < 0.05).
  2. **Significantly (P < 0.01).
  3. ***Significantly (P < 0.001).