Journal
VIRULENCE
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 149-162Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1368941
Keywords
neuroinvasion; olfactory bulb; pathogenesis; pseudorabies virus; virulence; wild boar
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- Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment Belgium [RF11/6249]
- Federal Science Policy, BELSPO [BR/132/PI/melatin-PRV]
- IAP (phase VII) BELVIR consortium
- Concerted Research Action 01G01311 of the Research Council of Ghent University, Belgium
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Morbidity and mortality associated with pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection are dependent on the age of the pig and the virulence of the strain. PRV strains circulating in wild boar are considered to be low virulent, but no mechanistic explanation for their reduced virulence is available. Here infection of 2-and 15-week-old domestic pigs with the PRV wild boar strain BEL24043 did not induce clinical symptoms in 15-week-old pigs, but resulted in important neurological and respiratory disease in 2-week-old piglets. A detailed study of the (neuro) pathogenesis and associated cytokine mRNA expression showed that the reduced virulence of the wild boar strain, compared to what was previously reported for the virulent domestic NIA3 strain, is due to a severely hampered spread to visceral organs in pigs of both age categories and to an efficient suppression of viral replication at primary replication sites of 15-week-old pigs and to a lesser extent in those of 2-week-old piglets. The age-dependent difference in induced symptoms seems to be due to an immature development state of the immune and/or nervous system in 2-week-old pigs. An extensive viral replication associated with a robust expression of cytokine-related mRNA was found in the olfactory bulb of 2-week-old piglets, correlating with observed neurological disease. Neuroinvasion also occurred via the trigeminal route in 2-week-old pigs, but viral replication was efficiently suppressed in the trigeminal ganglion in the presence of a moderate induction of cytokine-related mRNA. Viral replication in the peripheral and central nervous system of 15-week-old pigs was limited and efficiently suppressed.
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