Journal
VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v14071420
Keywords
swine enteric viruses; porcine epidemic diarrhea virus; epidemic and evolutionary characteristics; south-central China
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- Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (National Data Center of Animal Health)
- Technical Innovation Project of Hubei Province [2021ABA005]
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control Agents for Animal Bacteriosis (Ministry of Agriculture) [KLPCAAB-YTP-1801]
- Hubei Province Innovation Center of Agricultural Sciences and Technology [2019-620-000-001-017]
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This study investigated swine enteric viruses in pig farms in south-central China and found that PEDV is the predominant pathogen causing piglet diarrhea. PEDV infection occurs mainly in relatively cold winter and spring in Hunan and Hubei provinces. The positive rate of PEDV showed an abnormal increase from 2020 to 2021, and that of PoRVA and PDCoV exhibited gradual increases from 2018 to 2021. PEDV-PoRVA and PEDV-PDCoV were the dominant co-infection modes. Genetic evolution analysis revealed that the PEDV GII-a is currently the epidemic genotype, and DY2020 has a different clade compared to other GII-a strains. The results emphasize the importance of strengthening surveillance and technical reserves for the prevention and control of piglet diarrhea.
Swine enteric viruses are a major cause of piglet diarrhea, causing a devastating impact on the pork industry. To further understand the molecular epidemiology and evolutionary diversity of swine enteric viruses, we carried out a molecular epidemiological investigation of swine enteric viruses (PEDV, PDCoV, PoRVA, and TGEV) on 7107 samples collected from pig farms in south-central China. The results demonstrated that PEDV is the predominant pathogen causing piglet diarrhea, and its infection occurs mainly in relatively cold winter and spring in Hunan and Hubei provinces. The positive rate of PEDV showed an abnormal increase from 2020 to 2021, and that of PoRVA and PDCoV exhibited gradual increases from 2018 to 2021. PEDV-PoRVA and PEDV-PDCoV were the dominant co-infection modes. A genetic evolution analysis based on the PEDV S1 gene and ORF3 gene revealed that the PEDV GII-a is currently epidemic genotype, and the ORF3 gene of DY2020 belongs to a different clade relative to other GII-a strains isolated in this study. Overall, our results indicated that the variant PEDV GII-a is the main pathogen of piglet diarrhea with a trend of outbreak. G9 is the dominant PoRVA genotype and has the possibility of outbreak as well. It is therefore critical to strengthen the surveillance of PEDV and PoRVA, and to provide technical reserves for the prevention and control of piglet diarrhea.
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