Abstract
We report the first and only case of a porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) outbreak occurring in December 2014 in northern France, and we show using the full-length genome sequence of the French PED virus (PEDV) isolate that it was a PEDV indel strain close to German PEDV strains recently isolated.
Highlights
We report the first and only case of a porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) outbreak occurring in December 2014 in northern France, and we show using the full-length genome sequence of the French PED virus (PEDV) isolate that it was a PEDV indel strain close to German PEDV strains recently isolated
The PEDV genome sequences obtained from jejunum samples were named PEDV FR/001/2014 to FR/003/2014
PEDV FR/001/2014 was found to be genetically related to the recent German strain GER/ L00719/2014 (99.9% identity), isolated in May 2014 [6], and with USA/Indiana12.83/2013 (99.8% identity), a U.S strain detected in June 2013 [7]
Summary
We report the first and only case of a porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) outbreak occurring in December 2014 in northern France, and we show using the full-length genome sequence of the French PED virus (PEDV) isolate that it was a PEDV indel strain close to German PEDV strains recently isolated. In France, no PED cases have been described since the late 1990s, and the immune status of the pig population against PEDV is low [2]. Since April 2013, a severe epizooty of PED, characterized by watery diarrhea and vomiting, has been striking the United States. Suckling piglets are the most affected, with 90 to 95% mortality rates.
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