Increasing diversity of swine parvoviruses and their epidemiology in African pigs.

ABSTRACT: Detection of infectious viral agents has been on the increase globally with the advent and usage of more sensitive and selective novel molecular techniques in the epidemiological study of viral diseases of economic importance to the swine industry. The observation is not different for the pig-infecting member of the subfamily Parvovirinae in the family Parvoviridae as the application of novel molecular methods like metagenomics has brought about the detection of many other novel members of the group. Surprisingly, the list keeps increasing day by day with some of them possessing zoonotic potentials. In the last one decade, not less than ten novel swine-infecting viruses have been added to the subfamily, and ceaseless efforts have been in top gear to determine the occurrence and prevalence

SUBMITTER: Afolabi KO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7106291 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature