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Emergence of highly virulent pseudorabies virus in southern China

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Pseudorabies has been controlled efficiently in China for many years by vaccination. However, it suddenly broke out in many pig farms in 2012-2013 in southern China

16 October 2015
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Pseudorabies has been controlled efficiently in China for many years by vaccination. However, it suddenly broke out in many pig farms in 2012-2013 in southern China. In this study, a systematic investigation that included virus isolation, genetic and pathological studies, and immunogenicity analysis was carried out with the aim of understanding the pathogenetic and antigenic features of novel isolates of pseudorabies virus (PRV).

Of 38 tissue samples collected from pigs with clinical signs of pseudorabies on 13 farms in 4 provinces in southern China in 2012-2013, 29 showed wild-type PRV infection by polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis of 5 isolates from the 4 provinces showed that they belonged to a relatively independent cluster that shared 2 insertions of a single amino acid in the gE gene and 1 insertion of 7 amino acids in the gC gene. In experiments, isolate ZJ01 caused death in 100% of pigs that were either 14 or 80 days old. The serum antibodies to the commercial PRV vaccines had significantly lower neutralizing activity against the ZJ01 isolate than against the vaccine strains. The antigenic relatedness between ZJ01 and the vaccine strains was 0.378 to 0.455.

These findings indicated that a novel, highly virulent PRV strain with antigenic variance had spread widely in southern China.

Gu Z, Hou C, Sun H, Yang W, Dong J, Bai J, Jiang P. Emergence of highly virulent pseudorabies virus in southern China. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research, 2015 Jul;79(3):221-8.

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13-Oct-2017 nhat-duong-minhi want know are there any new researchers to find soltuion and what commercial vaccine that can protect pig aginst this new PRV strain?
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