Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2015)

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus among Farmed Pigs, Ukraine

  • Akbar Dastjerdi,
  • John Carr,
  • Richard J. Ellis,
  • Falko Steinbach,
  • Susanna Williamson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2112.150272
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 12
pp. 2235 – 2237

Abstract

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An outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea occurred in the summer of 2014 in Ukraine, severely affecting piglets <10 days of age; the mortality rate approached 100%. Full genome sequencing showed the virus to be closely related to strains reported from North America, showing a sequence identity of up to 99.8%.

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