Characterisation of the Virome of Tonsils from Conventional Pigs and from Specific Pathogen-Free Pigs.

ABSTRACT: Porcine respiratory disease is a multifactorial disease that can be influenced by a number of different microorganisms, as well as by non-infectious factors such as the management and environment of the animals. It is generally believed that the interaction between different infectious agents plays an important role in regard to respiratory diseases. Therefore, we used high-throughput sequencing combined with viral metagenomics to characterise the viral community of tonsil samples from pigs coming from a conventional herd with lesions in the respiratory tract at slaughter. In parallel, samples from specific pathogen-free pigs were also analysed. This study showed a variable co-infection rate in the different pigs. The differences were not seen at the group level but in individual pigs. Som

SUBMITTER: Blomstrom AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature