Is equine coronavirus a new problem?

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Equine coronarvirus...a new problem?
Posted on October 24, 2012 by Scott Weese

Two presentations at the International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases yesterday discussed equine coronavirus and whether it might be a new or previously unrecognized cause of disease in adult horses. This follows a presentation the day before that mentioned coronavirus diarrhea in racing draft horses in Japan - a rather unique group, pictured at right...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21273011

Vet Microbiol. 2011 May 12;150(1-2):41-8. Epub 2011 Jan 11.
Isolation of an equine coronavirus from adult horses with pyrogenic and enteric disease and its antigenic and genomic characterization in comparison with the NC99 strain.
Oue Y, Ishihara R, Edamatsu H, Morita Y, Yoshida M, Yoshima M, Hatama S, Murakami K, Kanno T.
Source

Hokkaido Tokachi Livestock Hygiene Service Center, 59-6, Kisen, Kawanishicho, Obihiro, Hokkaido 089-1182, Japan.
Abstract

A new equine coronavirus was isolated from the feces of adult horses with pyrogenic and enteric disease. The disease outbreak was mainly observed among 2- to 4-year-old horses living in stables of a draft-horse racetrack in Japan...

http://www.thehorse.com/articles/30852/coronavirus-a-cause-of-enteric-disease-in-adult-horses

Coronavirus: A Cause of Enteric Disease in Adult Horses?

By Erica Larson, News Editor ? Nov 12, 2012 ? Article #30852
Editor's Note: This article is part of TheHorse.com's ongoing coverage of topics presented at the 9th International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases, held Oct. 21-26 in Lexington, Ky....