First detection of equine coronavirus (ECoV) in Europe

Fabien Miszczak (1, 2) , Vincent Tesson (1) , Nathalie Kin (1) , Julia Dina (1) , Udeni B.R. Balasuriya (3) , Stéphane Pronost (2) , Astrid Vabret (1)

1 U2RM - Unité de Recherche Risques Microbiens
2 Laboratoire Frank Duncombe
3 Gluck Equine Research Center

Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is involved mainly in enteric infections. Following the recent description of ECoV in 2000, this study reports for the first time the presence of ECoV in France and, on a wider scale, in Europe. ECoV was molecularly detected from diarrheic and respiratory specimens. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that European strains are most closely related to the reference North American strain (ECoV-NC99) than the Asian strain (ECoV-Tokachi09).

Keywords: ECoV; Enteric and respiratory disease; Horses; Molecular identification; Phylogenetic analysis; Viruses

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Animal biology; Veterinary medicine and animal Health

Fabien Miszczak, Vincent Tesson, Nathalie Kin, Julia Dina, Udeni B.R. Balasuriya, et al.. First detection of equine coronavirus (ECoV) in Europe. Veterinary Microbiology, 2014, 171 (1-2), pp.206-209. ⟨10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.03.031⟩. ⟨hal-02950832⟩