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The role of porcine teschovirus in causing diseases in endemically infected pigs.
Veterinary microbiology - 28 Dec 2012
Chiu Shu-Chun, Hu Shu-Chia, Chang Chih-Cheng, Chang Chia-Yi, Huang Chin-Cheng, Pang Victor F, Wang Fun-In
Abstract excerpt
Porcine teschoviruses (PTVs) belong to the genus Teschovirus within the family Picornaviridae. Hitherto, PTVs have had 13 serotypes associated with a variety of clinical diseases. The virulent PTV-1 strains were associated with highly fatal, nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis of pigs (Teschen disease) in the 1930-1950s. Today, less virulent Talfan strains of PTV-1 are more widespread, and PTVs have contaminated...
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