Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) introduction into a naive Dutch pig population in 2014.

ABSTRACT: Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is the highly contagious, causative agent of an economically important acute enteric disease in pigs of all ages. The disease is characterized by diarrhea and dehydration causing mortality and growth retardation. In the last few decades, only classical PEDV was reported sporadically in Europe, but in 2014 outbreaks of PEDV were described in Germany. Phylogenetic analysis showed a very high nucleotide similarity with a variant of PEDV that was isolated in the US in January 2014. The epidemiological situation of PEDV infections in the Netherlands in 2014 was unknown and a seroprevalence study in swine was performed. In total, 838 blood samples from sows from 267 farms and 101 samples from wild boars were collected from May till November 2014 and tested

SUBMITTER: Dortmans JCFM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7117506 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature