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Molecular epidemiology of outbreak-associated pseudorabies virus (PRV) strains in central China.

Abstract
In several parts of China, there have been a large number of pseudorabies (PR) outbreaks which have devastated many swine farms even though the herds had been previously immunized with gE-deleted vaccines (Bartha-K61). The emergence of these outbreak-associated PRV strains might indicate that Bartha-K61 vaccine could not provide effective protection and poses challenges for current serologic diagnostics of anti-PRV antibodies. Here, we performed phylogenetic analyses based on partial gE, gB, and gC genes to provide information about the molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, and immune protection in these outbreak-associated PRV strains. Our results indicated that the maximal nucleotide sequence divergence for gE, gB, and gC genes are 1.7, 0.4, and 2.7 % within the cluster where outbreak-associated PRV strains were located, and are 2.3, 2.7, and 7.6 % with other clusters in the phylogenetic trees, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that gE, gB, and gC genes of the twelve outbreak-associated PRV strains clustered to a relatively independent branch of the tree, and evolved from the same ancestor with strains Ea-China-1999, Fa-China-2001, and BJ-China-2008. The genetic relationship between these outbreak-associated PRV strains and strain Bartha is not close which may genetically explain the emergence of PR outbreaks in Bartha-K61-vaccinated swine farms. We suggest that these outbreak-associated PRV strains originate from earlier strains in local regions in China.
AuthorsYinbiao Wang, Songlin Qiao, Xuewu Li, Weitao Xie, Junqing Guo, Qingmei Li, Xiao Liu, Jie Hou, Yanqi Xu, Li Wang, Chengliu Guo, Gaiping Zhang
JournalVirus genes (Virus Genes) Vol. 50 Issue 3 Pg. 401-9 (Jun 2015) ISSN: 1572-994X [Electronic] United States
PMID25860998 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • DNA, Viral
  • Viral Proteins
Topics
  • Animals
  • China (epidemiology)
  • Cluster Analysis
  • DNA, Viral (chemistry, genetics)
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Genetic Variation
  • Genotype
  • Herpesvirus 1, Suid (classification, genetics, isolation & purification)
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Pseudorabies (epidemiology, virology)
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sequence Homology
  • Swine
  • Swine Diseases (epidemiology, virology)
  • Viral Proteins (genetics)

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