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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 118, Issue 3-4, Pages 223-229Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.07.022
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torque teno virus (TTV); anellovirus; European wild boar (Sus scrofa); nested polymerase chain reaction; Spain
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The present study represents the first survey of Torque teno virus (TTV) prevalence in European wild boar (Sus scrofa). The prevalence of two distinct TTV genogroups in 178 Spanish wild boar sera from different geographic regions, management conditions, gender and age was determined by a nested PCR method. The overall prevalence of TTV genogroups was 84% (58% for genogoup I and 66% for genogroup 2), and differences between genogroup prevalence were observed depending on the Geographical region analysed. Significantly higher prevalence for TTV genogroup 2 was found in fenced managed wild boar, juvenile animals and females. No other significant differences in TTV genogroup prevalence were observed. The phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequences obtained from the untranslated region of selected samples revealed that the same TTV genogroups are infecting wild boar and domestic pig. The results indicate that TTV is apparently ubiquitous in European wild boar populations. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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