Retrospective Study of Canine Distemper Reported in Lafia Veterinary Hospital Doma Road During Period of 2014 – 2024

Student: Kaltimi AWOSE Abubakar (Project, 2025)
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lafia, Nasarawa State

Abstract

ABSTRACT Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a highly lethal contagious viral pathogen mainly found in domestic and wild canids and mustelids. Although, in Nigeria, circulating strains in Nasarawa State, Lafia wildlife and Arctic type are reported, data relating to Latium and Tuscany regions are limited. In view of this, through passive surveillance, we investigated the presence of CDV and which strains were circulating in these Regions. From 2014 to 2024, a group of 120 subjects were unvaccinated for CDV using a PCR protocol described in the literature, with 42 were vaccinated; analyses were carried out on a set of target samples (brain and lung, conjunctival, nasal and rectal swabs, urine or swab from bladder and intracardiac clot) that was defined for the detection of CDV in both live and dead animals. The rectal swab, easily collected also from live animals, represented the most suitable sample for CDV diagnosis, with 9 positive of the 11 (74.1%) tested. These results indicate that the Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a serious parasitic virus that effect on the animal production in Nigeria especially in Nasarawa State and control measures should be put in consideration to overcome this virus.

Keywords
Canine distemper retrospective study Lafia Veterinary Clinic demographic patterns clinical presentations vaccination survival outcomes CDV cases.
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