1. Isolation, molecular characterization, and phylogenetic analysis of porcine encephalomyocarditis virus strain HB10 in China
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Lin, Wencheng, Liu, Yebing, Cui, ShangJin, and Liu, Hongmei
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MOLECULAR phylogeny , *ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS virus , *VIRAL disease prevention , *MORTALITY , *LABORATORY swine , *VIRAL genetics , *ELECTRON microscopy , *ETIOLOGY of diseases - Abstract
Abstract: Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) can cause myocarditis, respiratory failure, reproductive failure, and mortality in pregnant sows, fetuses, and ablactating piglets. Diseases caused by EMCV currently affect the swine industry worldwide. A virus was isolated from organs of dead piglets that presented with acute myocarditis in northern China. The production of a specific cytopathic effect on susceptible cells and the results of hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay, PCR, electron microscopy (EM), and sequencing indicated that the pathogen was EMCV; the strain was named HB10. Other pathogenic agents causing myocarditis and death were excluded as possible pathogenic agents. Phylogenetic analyses of the capsid coding region and the VP3/VP1 genes using the neighbour-joining method revealed that EMCV isolates cluster into two groups (groups 1 and 2) with two sub-clusters within group 1 (group 1a and b). HB10 belongs to group 1a, along with strains CBNU, GX0601, BJC3, NJ08, and BEL-2887A/91. Five strains isolated from Sus scrofa belong to group 2. The results of this and previous studies indicate that HB10 and other EMCV strains cause myocarditis of pigs in China. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2012
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