id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-300123-fzijbney Nemoto, Manabu Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 2015-09-22 .txt text/plain 1638 112 61 RESULTS: We collected 337 rectal swabs from 307 diarrheic foals in the Hidaka district of Hokkaido, the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region in Japan, between 2012 and 2014. [10] reported that approximately 30 % of healthy and diarrheic thoroughbred foals in central Kentucky in the United States were infected with ECoV, using a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. Therefore, we investigated ECoV using molecular diagnostic methods on rectal swabs collected from thoroughbred foals in the Hidaka district Open Access *Correspondence: nemoto_manabu@equinst.go.jp 1 Epizootic Research Center, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, 1400-4 Shiba, Shimotsuke, Tochigi 329-0412, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article of Hokkaido, which is the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region in Japan. Compared with central Kentucky, ECoV is not prevalent among thoroughbred foals in Hidaka district of Hokkaido, but some outbreaks have occurred in draft racehorses. ./cache/cord-300123-fzijbney.txt ./txt/cord-300123-fzijbney.txt