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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH
Volume 69, Issue 12, Pages 1615-1622Publisher
AMER VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.69.12.1615
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- National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service [R01 A1053120]
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Objective-To determine whether porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome (PDNS) could be experimentally induced in gnotobiotic swine. Sample Population-Plasma samples from 27 sows and 20 conventional weaned piglets were obtained, and 30 gnotobiotic pigs were used in experiments. Procedures-3 experiments were conducted. Groups of 3-day-old gnotobiotic pigs were inoculated with pooled plasma samples obtained from healthy feeder pigs in a herd that was in the initial phases of an outbreak of respiratory disease; gross and histologic lesions of PDNS were detected in the inoculated pigs. In a second experiment, 2- and 3-day-old gnotobiotic pigs were inoculated with porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and with PRRSV-negative tissue homogenate containing genogroup 1 torque teno virus (g1-TTV). Lesions of PDNS were detected. Results-Pigs inoculated with pooled plasma or the combination of tissue-culture-origin PRRSV and g1-TTV tissue homogenate developed systemic hemostatic defects, bilaterally symmetric cutaneous hemorrhages, generalized edema, icterus, bilaterally symmetric renal cortical hemorrhage, dermal vasculitis with hemorrhage, and interstitial pneumonia consistent with a clinical and pathologic diagnosis of PDNS. The PRRSV RNAs and g1-TTV DNAs were detected in plasma; all pigs seroconverted to PRRSV, and all had negative results for porcine circovirus type 2 when tested by use of PCR assays. Conclusions and Clinical Relevance-These data suggested that PDNS is a manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulation in swine. For the. experimental conditions reported here, combined infection with g1-TTV and PRRSV was implicated in the genesis of these lesions. (Am J Vet Res 2008;69:1615-1622)
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