Differences in the intestinal microbiota between uninfected piglets and piglets infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.

ABSTRACT: Porcine epidemic diarrhea, a disastrous gastrointestinal disease, causes great financial losses due to its high infectivity, morbidity and mortality in suckling piglets despite the development and application of various vaccines. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was used to explore differences in the intestinal microbiota between uninfected piglets and piglets infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). The results revealed that the small intestinal microbiota of suckling piglets infected with PEDV showed low diversity and was dominated by Proteobacteria (49.1%). Additionally, the composition of the small intestinal microbiota of sucking piglets infected with PEDV showed marked differences from that of the uninfected piglets. Some of the taxa showing differences in abund

SUBMITTER: Huang MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5814011 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature