Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2017)

High Abundance and Genetic Variability of Atypical Porcine Pestivirus in Pigs from Europe and Asia

  • Alexander Postel,
  • Denise Meyer,
  • Gökce Nur Cagatay,
  • Francesco Feliziani,
  • Gian Mario De Mia,
  • Nicole Fischer,
  • Adam Grundhoff,
  • Vesna Milićević,
  • Ming-Chung Deng,
  • Chia-Yi Chang,
  • Hua-Ji Qiu,
  • Yuan Sun,
  • Michael Wendt,
  • Paul Becher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.170951
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 12
pp. 2104 – 2107

Abstract

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Atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) was recently reported to be associated with neurologic disorders in newborn piglets. Investigations of 1,460 serum samples of apparently healthy pigs from different parts of Europe and Asia demonstrate a geographically wide distribution of genetically highly variable APPV and high APPV genome and antibody detection rates.

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