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Detection of a novel porcine circovirus-like agent in aborted pig foetuses.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Oct 2018
Wen L, Mao A, Zhu X, Xie J, He K
Abstract excerpt
A large outbreak of swine abortion, which began in January 2017, is ongoing in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, China. We identified a new porcine circovirus-like agent, designated P4, in the aborted foetuses from several of these cases of swine reproductive failure. PCR and qRT-PCR analyses confirmed that other common abortogenic agents were not present in these animals. P4 contains a 710-nucleotide circular viral...
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