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CEI Emerging Disease Notices: PMWS / PDNS
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Case Histories
Yorkshire Farm, UK - Mike Muirhead - Final Update, June 2002
Mike Muirhead's case history of a Yorkshire farm with PMWS and PDNS.
East Anglia Farm, UK - Philip Richardson
This paper charts the course and effects of the disease on a single herd as well as highlighting the economic impact.
Photographs
Clinical signs
Photos of the clinical signs that are seen generally in pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes skin lesions, enlarged lymph glands, wasting and dead pigs.
Post mortem (1)
Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS. Includes interstitial pneumonia, secondary bacterial infection, enlarged lymph nodes, oedema and intra cytoplasmic inclusions
Post mortem (2)
More Photos of the signs that are seen in post-mortem samples of pigs with PMWS and PDNS.


PMWS Research Archives

Published Wednesday, June 29, 2011: Virus Research Volume 158, Issues 1-2, June 2011, Pages 281-288
Natural Recombinants Derived from Different Patterns of Recombination Between two PCV2b Parental Strains
Lin Cai, Xue Han, Jianqiang Ni, Xiuling Yu, Zhi Zhou, Xinyan Zhai, Xizhao Chen, Kegong Tian
Porcine circovirus diseases (PCVD) are globally emerging diseases that have huge economic impacts on swine industry. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is considered to be the essential primary causative agent of PCVD. In the present study, recombination analyses of PCV2 identified two possible recombination events with high confidence using recombination detection program, phylogenetic analysis and base-by-base comparison. These recombination events occurred between strains 09CQ (HQ395024) and ZhuJi2003 (AY579893), giving rise to two recombinants 09GS (HQ395028) and HN0907 (GU938303). Phylogenetic analyses of the parental strains at full length level suggest that natural recombination happened between PCV2b strains. Interestingly, recombination of the two parental strains yielded two recombinants through different recombination patterns with crossover regions mainly located in ORF1 and ORF2, respectively. These results demonstrate that recombination between PCV2b strains can occur both in non-structural protein coding region and structural protein coding region. Our study not only indicates that PCV2b strains can undergo recombination through a variety of patterns, but also suggests that recombination contributes to the genetic diversity of PCV2.


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