Cases resource, samples collection, experimental mice
The disease occurred in a breeding farm with about 890 raccoon dogs in
Guan County of Shandong Province in August, 2019; and about half of the
raccoon dogs were abnormal and several decades of them showed unstable
standing, dyspnea, sever swelling in some joints; and a few died for
that. Some important information on this disease was recorded. Three
raccoon dogs with typical symptom were carefully examined and some
tissues samples were collected to be used for identifying the pathogens
of this disease.
The special pathogenic free (SPF) BALb/c mice were purchased for
artificial-infection-test from Experimental Animal Center of Shandong ,
of .