Reappearance of buffalo-origin-like porcine circovirus type 2 strains in swine herds in southern China

S-L Zhai; X Zhou; T Lin; H Zhang; X-H Wen; X-R Zhou; C-L Jia; D Tu; X-L Zhu; Q-L Chen; W-K Wei; D-H Lv

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.009

Reappearance of buffalo-origin-like porcine circovirus type 2 strains in swine herds in southern China

New Microbes New Infect. 2017 Mar 9:17:98-100. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2017.02.009. eCollection 2017 May.

Authors

S-L Zhai¹, X Zhou^{1

2}, T Lin³, H Zhang^{1

2}, X-H Wen¹, X-R Zhou¹, C-L Jia¹, D Tu¹, X-L Zhu¹, Q-L Chen¹, W-K Wei¹, D-H Lv¹

Affiliations

¹ Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Disease Prevention, Animal Disease Diagnostic Center, Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
² College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
³ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA.

Abstract

Previously, we identified three porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) strains in buffalo meat samples from southern China. In this study, we confirmed the reappearance of those buffalo-origin-like PCV2 strains in swine herds in this region, which supported the possible cross-species infection of PCV2 between buffalos and pigs under field conditions.

Keywords: Buffalo-origin; cross-species infection; porcine circovirus type 2; southern China; swine-origin.