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{"title":"AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 46 (2020)","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520990012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520990012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87827831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EFFECT OF EFFLUX PUMP INHIBITORS ON ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF FLORFENICOL AGAINST RESISTANT STRAINS OF PORCINE ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE AND PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA","authors":"Porjai Rattanapanadda, H. Kuo, M. Hsieh, C. Chou","doi":"10.1142/S1682648520500146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648520500146","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to investigate whether combinational use of efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs) could improve florfenicol (FF) antimicrobial activity. Five EPIs including Carbonyl Cyanide Chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), omeprazole, Phenylalanine-arginine [Formula: see text]-naphthylamide (PA[Formula: see text]N), reserpine and verapamil were individually combined with FF and the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) against porcine Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Pasteurella multocida were evaluated by the broth microdilution assay. The results indicated that CCCP demonstrated substantial improvement on the antimicrobial activity (FF MIC reduction [Formula: see text] folds) while PAßN showed minimal effect at high concentrations (80–120[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]g/mL). The MICs of FF were further examined with CCCP at 5[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]g/mL against resistant A. pleuropneumoniae and at 2[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]g/mL against resistant P. multocida. With this combination, a total of 75% (6/8) of A. pleuropneumoniae and 100% (8/8) of P. multocida resistant isolates showed significantly reduced ([Formula: see text] folds) FF MICs. In addition, 100% of the 16 resistant bacterial strains carried the floR gene that regulates the phenicol-specific efflux pump (FloR pump). The time kill experiments were used to verify the effect of CCCP demonstrating a bactericidal effect in resistant A. pleuropneumoniae and synergistic effect in resistant P. multocida. In contrast, the FF MICs were not significantly affected in the FF susceptible strains of these two bacteria. These findings suggested that despite small sample sizes, consistent beneficial effects of CCCP were evident such that the combinational use of selective EPI with FF might be an alternative antibacterial strategy against FF resistant A. pleuropneumoniae and P. multocida. The anti-efflux mechanism was indicated, but more researches to further decipher the mechanisms of CCCP’s effects are warranted.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80530041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF FIVE COMMON ENDOPARASITE INFESTATIONS IN LABORATORY RODENTS","authors":"Chien-Hao Chen, Ming-Hseng Wang, C. Wan","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500110","url":null,"abstract":"Rodent pinworms, Spironucleus muris and Tritrichomonas muris are the endoparasites that should be monitored and excluded from laboratory animal colonies. Nevertheless, traditional diagnostic methods may not efficiently detect and accurately demonstrate the endoparasite infestation status. In this study, we developed a multiplex PCR assay targeting the rRNA genes to simultaneously detect and differentiate five endoparasites, including Syphacia obvelata, Syphacia muris, Aspiculuris tetraptera, Spironucleus muris, and T. muris, as well as a housekeeping gene in feces. The multiplex PCR could identify an equivalent infection of pinworm, Spironucleus muris and T. muris, with a detection limit of as few as 10 copies. Furthermore, dual infections with up to 100-fold differences and triple infections with 10-fold differences in parasite loads can also be detected. In comparison of traditional methods with the multiplex PCR assay, 76 rodents from 11 research colonies and 3 pet shops and additional 27 fecal samples from laboratory rodents were screened for the infestation status of the five endoparasites. The multiplex PCR had higher sensitivity (97.2–100%) and accuracy (99–100%) than those of the traditional antemortem (sensitivity: 83–100%; accuracy: 94–100%) and postmortem methods (sensitivity: 75–100%; accuracy: 92.1–100%). In addition, an early stage of S. obvelata contamination in a SPF laboratory animal colony was also successfully detected by this multiplex PCR assay. This Pinworm/Spironucleus/Tritrichomonas/Actin Multiplex PCR assay should be a powerful tool to screen endoparasite infestations in laboratory colonies without animal sacrifice.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84974943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NOVEL PCR ASSAYS FOR THREE FUR MITES IN NATURALLY INFECTED MICE WITHOUT ANIMAL SACRIFICE","authors":"Chih-Lin Chou, Ying-Chien Cheng, Ming-Hseng Wang, C. Wan","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500122","url":null,"abstract":"Rodent fur mite infestation is a persistent and intractable problem in laboratory rodent colonies, due to insensitive diagnostics, unrepresentative samples for testing and improper sentinel system. Myocoptes musculinus (COP), Myobia musculi (MOB) and Radfordia affinis (RDA) have been reported in laboratory mouse colonies. To improve the sensitivity and efficiency of fur mite detection, COP-specific PCR and MOB/RDA-specific PCR assays were developed to detect and differentiate these fur mites, with the existence of a rodent housekeeping gene. The COP-specific PCR and the MOB/RDA-specific PCR could specifically detect COP and MOB/RDA at as low as 10 copies, respectively. In comparison of the specific PCRs with traditional methods (pluck test, tape test and pelt exam) for fur mite diagnosis, 31 rodents and 17 cage environment samples were evaluated. In screening for the infestation status of various fur mites on individual animals, the specific PCR assays showed distinctly higher sensitivity and accuracy (100% and 100%) than those of the traditional methods (sensitivity: 25–80%, accuracy: 83.9–96.8%). Interestingly, by using cage wipe environmental samples, the specific PCR assays exhibited 100% sensitivity and accuracy in the fur mite detection and differentiation. The COP-specific and MOB/RDA-specific PCR assays developed in this study could be reliable alternatives for routine pathogen monitoring of laboratory mice and environments of animal facilities without animal sacrifice. [Chou C-L, Cheng Y-C, Wang MH, Wan CH, Novel PCR assays for three fur mites in naturally infected mice without animal sacrifice, Taiwan Vet J 46(4):133–142, 2020.]","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83467199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DETECTION OF SPIKE-SPECIFIC MUTATIONS IN SEROTYPE I FELINE CORONAVIRUSES IN FORMALIN-FIXED AND PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED TISSUE","authors":"S. H. Kuo, Yen-Chen Chang, Hui-Wen Chang, Wei-Hsiang Huang","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520720026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520720026","url":null,"abstract":"Previously, the M1058L and S1060A amino acid mutations in the spike protein of feline coronavirus (FCoV) have been shown to distinguish feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) from feline enteri...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91476488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EFFECTS OF THE bap AND eno GENES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISINFECTANTS AGAINST COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI","authors":"Yi-Jing Xue, D. Lo, Chihcheng Chang, Mingyang Huang, Weling Chien, Yanching Lei, Yaochi Su, Peichuan Hsu, J. Lai","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500055","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to determine the minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) of didecyldimethylammonium chloride (DDAC), povidone iodine (PI), and chlorhexidine and the differences in these values...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77267768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A HIGHLY SENSITIVE REAL-TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR DETECTING NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN GENE OF BOTH CLASSES I AND II OF NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS","authors":"Yu-Pin Liu, Chiu-Yen Chang, F. Lee, Chwei-Jang Chiou, H. Tsai","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500043","url":null,"abstract":"Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a worldwide viral agent that infects over 200 species of birds and is responsible for outbreaks of ND. Although a series of real-time reverse transcription polymera...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74558802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO NOVEL RAT MINUTE VIRUSES IN TAIWAN","authors":"Y. Liao, Yung-Hui Chang, Ming-Hseng Wang, Ber-Hsiang Fang, C. Wan","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500109","url":null,"abstract":"Rodent parvovirus infection is one of the common viral problems in laboratory rodent colonies. In this study, two new parvoviruses were identified in naturally-infected rats from two different research colonies in Taiwan. The genomic nucleotide sequences and the predicted amino acid sequences of proteins for these two viruses were compared to the previously characterized rodent parvoviruses. The two newly identified viruses were most closely related to each other, also closely related to two variants of rat minute virus (RMV; RMV-1 and RMV-2), and distinct from but closely related to Kilham rat virus and H-1 virus. These two viruses were significantly different from variants of rat parvovirus (RPV; RPV-1 and RPV-NTU1). Phylogenetic data also supported that these two new viruses are variants of the RMV species. These two newly identified viruses were designated RMV type National Taiwan University 1 (RMV-NTU1) and RMV type National Taiwan University 2 (RMV-NTU2). RMV-NTUs are the first molecularly characterized RMV variants identified in Asia.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74760250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"REDUCED CHICKEN EMBRYO DWARFING EFFECT IS RELATED TO INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS TW2575/98 REPLICATION EFFICIENCY","authors":"Cheng-Ta Tsai, Ming-Chang Lee, Ching-Ho Wang","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500092","url":null,"abstract":"An attenuated infectious bronchitis virus (TW2575/98) vaccine strain was successfully developed after 75 serial passages in embryonated chicken eggs. However, the in ovo vaccination for disease control was not applied in practice because this vaccine strain is highly pathogenic to chicken embryos (CEs) causing early death, dwarfing and other harmful effects. We compared the differences in virus replication, pathological changes, and tissue tropism between the wild virus and attenuated vaccine strain in CEs inoculated with different viral titer levels, i.e. 0.1, 1 and 10 EID[Formula: see text]/egg. The wild virus caused dwarfing effect at high titer inoculation, whereas the attenuated vaccine strain caused the dwarfing effect only at a lower viral inoculation accompanied by the earlier infection establishment and embryonic death at high and medium titers. There were no significant differences in the pathological changes in CEs infected by both wild and attenuated strains. Detected by immunohistochemistry, the viral antigens of both strains could be found mainly at the epithelium of the chorioallantoic membrane, lung parabronchus, renal tubules and some in the spleen and heart serosa. These findings indicated that the early embryonic death and dwarfing is not related to the change in cell/tissue tropism of the vaccine strain, rather on the early infection establishment and viral load. We suggest that the vaccine strain inoculated titer could be adjusted to an optimal low level for in ovo vaccination to overcome the poor hatching rate for its higher virulence to chicken embryos.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74842959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ACCURACY AND PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF VULVAR STAMP SMEAR FOR ESTROUS CYCLE EVALUATION IN DOGS","authors":"I-Li Liu, Chih-Ho Lee, Pei-Chi Shih, Shang-Lin Wang","doi":"10.1142/s1682648520500080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1682648520500080","url":null,"abstract":"Vaginal cytology can facilitate determination of the estrous stage in dogs. Although some studies recommended the vaginal cotton swab smear (VCSS) method for sample collection, some veterinarians p...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72825434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}