Viremia and nasal shedding for the diagnosis of equine herpesvirus-1 infection in domesticated horses
Pusterla, N., Dorman, D. C., Burgess, B. A., Goehring, L., Gross, M., Osterrieder, K., … Lunn, D. P. (2023, December 9). JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE.
author keywords: abortion; equine; equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy; herpesvirus-1; nasal shedding; quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR); rhinopneumonitis; viremia; virus isolation
TL;DR:
Under experimental conditions, blood and nasal secretions have similar sensitivity for the detection of EHV-1 when horses are sampled on multiple consecutive days, but in observational studies detection of EHV-1 in nasal secretions was consistently more successful.
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