| detection of antibody to canine distemper virus in wild raccoons (procyon lotor) in japan. | canine distemper virus (cdv) causes a lethal disease among members of the carnivora. to clarify the distribution of cdv in wild animals, we examined 106 raccoon sera collected from two prefectures in japan, hyogo and osaka, from 2005 to 2007. among them, 34 raccoons (32.1%) possessed a virus-neutralizing (vn) antibody to kdk-1 strain (genotype asia-1). there was no significant difference in seroprevalence of cdv regardless of places, gender, and body weights. in hyogo, a geometric mean of vn tit ... | 2009 | 20046037 |