HERPESVIRUS-INFECTION IN THE DOG - DIAGNOSIS AND CLINICAL ASPECTS

At the clinical level, canine herpesvirus infection is most often the cause in breeding kennels of a period of infertility or very precious neonatal mortality which normally affects a single breed and disappear s before the nest reproductive cycle. The difficulties encountered in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and detection are linked to the poten tial for latency and reactivation of all the herpesviruses, as well as their poor immunogenic activity. These factors make a lot of breeders accept with resignation that in the dog, as with numerous species, th ey must learn to ''live with herpesvirus infection'' and that in dog b reeding ''it is better to have the herpesvirus infection behind them t han in front of them''.