Bovine respiratory syncytial virus and bovine coronavirus in Swedish organic and conventional dairy herds

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Cecilia Wolff¹  Ulf Emanuelson¹  Anna Ohlson²  Stefan Alenius¹  Nils Fall¹ 

[1] Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden

[2] Växa Sverige, Stockholm, SE-101 24, Sweden

关键词: ELISA;    Disease incidence;    Disease prevalence;    Cattle;    Diarrhoea;    Bovine respiratory disease;   

Others  :  1122398
DOI  :  10.1186/s13028-014-0091-x

 received in 2014-08-11, accepted in 2014-12-17,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Infections with bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) and bovine coronavirus (BoCV) are endemic to the cattle populations in most countries, causing respiratory and/or enteric disease. It has been demonstrated that herds can remain free from these infections for several years also in high prevalence areas. Organically managed (OM) dairy herds have been shown to have lower seroprevalence of both viruses compared to conventionally managed (CM) herds. The objective of this study was to challenge the hypothesis of a lower occurrence of BRSV and BoCV in OM compared to CM dairy herds.

In November 2011, May 2012 and May 2013 milk samples from four homebred primiparous cows were collected in 75 to 65 OM and 69 to 62 CM herds. The antibody status regarding BRSV and BoCV was analysed with commercial indirect ELISAs. Herds were classified as positive if at least one individual sample was positive.

Results

The prevalence of positive herds ranged from 73.4% to 82.3% for BRSV and from 76.8% to 85.3% for BoCV among OM and CM herds, over the three sampling occasions. There was no statistically significant difference between OM and CM herds at any sampling occasion. The incidence risk of newly infected herds did not differ statistically between OM and CM herds at any sampling occasion, neither for BRSV nor for BoCV. The incidence of herds turning sero-negative between samplings corresponded to the incidence of newly infected. Bulk tank milk (BTM) samples were also sampled in the herds and analysed. Several herds were negative on individual samples but positive in BTM. Herd-level data on production, health and reproduction were retrieved from VÄXA Sweden and the study herds were representative of the source population.

Conclusion

There was no difference in prevalence of or incidence risk for BRSV or BoCV between Swedish OM and CM herds. Because the incidence of herds becoming seropositive was balanced by herds becoming seronegative it should be possible to lower the prevalence of these two infections among Swedish dairy cattle herds if biosecurity is improved.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Wolff et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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