Abstract
Porcine Deltacoronavirus in Mainland China.
Highlights
To the Editor: Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was discovered in 2012, during a study to identify new coronaviruses in mammals and birds in Hong Kong [1]
The causative agent was considered to be a variant of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) [8], and the role of PDCoV in the outbreak was not investigated at that time
The 215 samples were simultaneously tested for PEDV and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) by using the primers listed in online Technical Appendix Table 2
Summary
To the Editor: Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was discovered in 2012, during a study to identify new coronaviruses in mammals and birds in Hong Kong [1]. Since December 2010, a large-scale outbreak of diarrhea in suckling piglets has occurred on swine farms in mainland China [7]. Using 2 pairs of specific primers to detect PDCoV, as described by Wang et al [2], we tested 215 intestinal or fecal samples collected at various times during 2004–2014 from piglets with clinical diarrhea in Anhui, Guangxi, Hubei, and Jiangsu provinces, mainland China (online Technical Appendix Table 1, http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/EID/ article/21/12/15-0283-Techapp1.pdf).
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