Porcine Bocavirus Infection Associated with Encephalomyelitis in a Pig, Germany(1).

Vanessa M. Pfankuche,André Habierski,Christina Puff,Kerstin Hahn,Andreas Beineke,Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus,Wolfgang Baumgärtner,Rogier Bodewes

doi:10.3201/eid2207.152049

Abstract

Porcine Bocavirus Infection Associated with Encephalomyelitis in a Pig, Germany(1).

Highlights

To the Editor: In 2013, a 6-week-old female piglet kept in a flatdeck cage had coughing, growth retardation, and diarrhea and was taken to a local veterinarian in Hannover, Germany; the piglet was euthanized
Results confirmed that porcine bocavirus (PBoV) S1142/13 was most closely related to PBoV KU14 (Figure, panel A)
The partial genome of PBoV S1142/13 differed at 8 nt positions from PBoV KU14, resulting in 99.6% nt identity

Summary

Introduction

To the Editor: In 2013, a 6-week-old female piglet kept in a flatdeck cage had coughing, growth retardation, and diarrhea and was taken to a local veterinarian in Hannover, Germany; the piglet was euthanized. Author affiliations: University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany Results from screening for typical neurotropic viruses (classical swine fever virus, suid herpesvirus 1, rabies virus, teschovirus, porcine enterovirus 8, 9, and 10) were negative; Mycoplasma hyorhinis was detected by multiplex PCR (Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) within the lung and pulmonary lymph nodes.

Results

Conclusion