Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China

In 2007, herds of pigs in Jiangxi Province, China experienced outbreaks of a severe form of suspected porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) characterized by high fever, high morbidity and mortality in animals of different ages. 152 swine sera and 42 tissues (consisting of liver, lung,...

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Main Authors: Guo, Aijiang, Wu, Guohua, Gong, Wei, Luo, Xuenong, Zheng, Haixue, Jia, Huanjie, Cai, Xuepeng
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443052/
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spelling pubmed-34430522012-09-15 Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China Guo, Aijiang Wu, Guohua Gong, Wei Luo, Xuenong Zheng, Haixue Jia, Huanjie Cai, Xuepeng Case Report In 2007, herds of pigs in Jiangxi Province, China experienced outbreaks of a severe form of suspected porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) characterized by high fever, high morbidity and mortality in animals of different ages. 152 swine sera and 42 tissues (consisting of liver, lung, lymph node and kidney) from five herds of pigs were collected. Pigs were diagnosed as infected with a highly pathogenic form of the PRRS virus (PRRSV) based on ELISA and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results. Serological surveys indicated that 67-100% of the examined pig herds in Jiangxi Province were seropositive. 42 tissue samples were used to detect classical swine fever virus, porcine circovirus type 2 and PRRSV. Results indicated that only PRRSV was detected in 42 samples. 12 PRRSV amplified products of five herds, which consisted of two or three samples randomly selected from each herd, were used for sequencing. Subsequent nucleotide sequencing showed that the NSP2 gene had 99–99.7% nucleotide and 99.2–100% derived amino acid sequence identities among 12 tissues with that of the PRRS-JXA1 strain, deletions of 29 amino acids corresponded to positions 534–562 of the NSP2 gene sequence. These results revealed that the diseased pigs were all caused by fatal PRRSV variant. Compared with the same period in 2006, the number of positive cases from Jiangxi Province remained unchanged. These findings demonstrated that the highly pathogenic Northern American type PRRSV was still spreading in Jiangxi Province, China in 2007. BioMed Central 2012-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3443052/ /pubmed/22784793 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-65-14 Text en Copyright ©2012 Guo et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Guo, Aijiang
Wu, Guohua
Gong, Wei
Luo, Xuenong
Zheng, Haixue
Jia, Huanjie
Cai, Xuepeng
spellingShingle Guo, Aijiang
Wu, Guohua
Gong, Wei
Luo, Xuenong
Zheng, Haixue
Jia, Huanjie
Cai, Xuepeng
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
author_facet Guo, Aijiang
Wu, Guohua
Gong, Wei
Luo, Xuenong
Zheng, Haixue
Jia, Huanjie
Cai, Xuepeng
author_sort Guo, Aijiang
title Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
title_short Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
title_full Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
title_fullStr Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
title_full_unstemmed Outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Jiangxi province, China
title_sort outbreaks of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in jiangxi province, china
description In 2007, herds of pigs in Jiangxi Province, China experienced outbreaks of a severe form of suspected porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) characterized by high fever, high morbidity and mortality in animals of different ages. 152 swine sera and 42 tissues (consisting of liver, lung, lymph node and kidney) from five herds of pigs were collected. Pigs were diagnosed as infected with a highly pathogenic form of the PRRS virus (PRRSV) based on ELISA and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results. Serological surveys indicated that 67-100% of the examined pig herds in Jiangxi Province were seropositive. 42 tissue samples were used to detect classical swine fever virus, porcine circovirus type 2 and PRRSV. Results indicated that only PRRSV was detected in 42 samples. 12 PRRSV amplified products of five herds, which consisted of two or three samples randomly selected from each herd, were used for sequencing. Subsequent nucleotide sequencing showed that the NSP2 gene had 99–99.7% nucleotide and 99.2–100% derived amino acid sequence identities among 12 tissues with that of the PRRS-JXA1 strain, deletions of 29 amino acids corresponded to positions 534–562 of the NSP2 gene sequence. These results revealed that the diseased pigs were all caused by fatal PRRSV variant. Compared with the same period in 2006, the number of positive cases from Jiangxi Province remained unchanged. These findings demonstrated that the highly pathogenic Northern American type PRRSV was still spreading in Jiangxi Province, China in 2007.
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