Failure to demonstrate equine rhinopneumonitis virus as a cause of abortion in mares in New Zealand

Authors: Pearce HG, Alley MR
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 7, pp 127-131, Jul 1976
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Horse, Livestock
Subject Terms: Abortion/stillbirth, Viral, Respiratory system, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Notifiable organisms/exotic disease, Reproduction, Pneumonia/pleurisy, Reproduction - female
Article class: Scientific Article

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Abstract: The occurrence of infectious equine abortion in the United States of America was first described in 1932 (Dimock and Edwards, 1932). These workers thought that the cause might be a virus (Dimock and Edwards, 1933) possibly equine influenza virus (Doll, 1972) but it was not until the clinical syndromes of equine influenza, equine viral arteritis and equine viral rhinopneumonitis were defined that the various infectious causes of equine abortion could be differentiated (Jones et al 1948; Doll and Kintner, 1954; Doll et al 1957). Equine rhinopneumonitis virus (ERV), was first isolated from aborted foals by Doll and Wallace (1954) and subsequently shown to have the morphology of a herpes virus…

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