1. Three different genotypes of porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) identified in pigs and warthogs in Namibia
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Umberto Molini, Sjandré Moller, Giuseppe Marruchella, William G. Dundon, Giovanni Cattoli, Giovanni Franzo, Bernard Chiwome, Lené Gous, Yvonne Maria Hemberger, and Siegfried Khaiseb
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Circovirus ,Swine Diseases ,0303 health sciences ,medicine.medical_specialty ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Genotype ,030306 microbiology ,Swine ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Namibia ,03 medical and health sciences ,Porcine circovirus ,Medical microbiology ,medicine ,Animals ,Circoviridae Infections ,Phylogeny ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) is the causative agent of porcine circovirus diseases (PCVD). A study was undertaken to determine whether PCV-2 was present in samples collected from commercial pigs (n = 46) and warthogs (n = 42) in Namibia between 2019 and 2020. Twenty-three of the collected samples were positive by PCR (13 from pigs and 10 from warthogs), and a phylogenetic analysis of ORF2 identified three genotypes (PCV-2b and PCV-2d in pigs and PCV-2c in warthogs). This is the first time that PCV-2 has been identified in warthogs and in Namibia. It is also the first report of PCV-2c in Africa.
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- 2020