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Bulletin No. 17 - Winter 2003
VirologyPMWS-PCV2-PCVD-PDNS
ELLIS J, SPINATO M, YONG C, WEST K, MC NEILLY F, MEEHAM B, KENNEDY S, CLARK E, KRAKOWKA S, ALLAN G
Porcine circovirus 2-associated disease in Eurasian wild boar.
J. Vet. Diagn. Invest., 2003, Volume 15, 364-368
Several 6-week-old boar piglets from a Canadian farm of wild boars were investigated. The animals had clinical signs and lesions similar to those observed in PMWS-affected pigs and the presence of a circovirus with an opening reading frame 2 (ORF2) sharing 98.7% homology with the ORF2 of a reference PCV2 was demonstrated. These results show the ability of PCV2 to infect and cause disease in Sus scrofa subspecies other than domestic swine.
