Study of dog as the animal reservoir of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Zhang, Y.
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 9(4): 227-229
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0254-6450 PMID: 2906570 Document Number: 316818
From 1985-1986, 86 pieces of dog's lung tissue collected from endemic areas of HFRS in Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces were tested for HFRS antigen by IFAT, 7 were found to be positive, the positivity rate was 8.1%. Two strains of virus of HFRS were isolated from HFRS antigen-positive lung tissue. It was found in epidemiological survey that HFRS incidence rate in families raising dogs was significantly higher than that of control families without dogs and in apparent HFRS infection rate in healthy people who had frequent contact with dogs was significantly higher than that in people who had no contact with dogs. Evidence from these investigations shows that dog may serve as an reservoir of HFRS virus and much attention must be paid to dogs in the control of HFRS.