Publications by authors named "Changzhan Xie"

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  • Newcastle disease virus (NDV) has potential as a vectored vaccine, but research on its immunomodulatory effects, particularly in antigen presentation, is limited.
  • The study focused on how NDV affects the interaction between infected dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells, finding that NDV inhibits the production of interleukin (IL)-12p40, which decreases T cell activation and viral transmission.
  • Results show NDV alters immune responses, providing insights into viral immunosuppression and suggesting ways to enhance NDV-vectored vaccines.
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), which uses a mosquito primary vector and swine as a reservoir host, poses a significant risk to human and animal health. JEV can be detected in cattle, goats and dogs. A molecular epidemiological survey of JEV was conducted in 3105 mammals from five species, swine, fox, racoon dog, yak and goat, and 17,300 mosquitoes from 11 Chinese provinces.

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The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a threat to the health of pigs worldwide, but commercially available vaccines offer limited protection against PRRSV infection. It is necessary to develop a more effective DNA vaccine. The immunological effects of DNA vaccines with three adjuvants were examined in pigs () challenged with PRRSV.

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and Porcine circovirus (PCV) are two important pathogens, which caused respiratory disease in pigs. PRRSV and PCV2 had caused great economic losses to the pig industry. Pigs coinfection with PCV2 and PRRSV were common in the clinic, PCV2 antibodies can be detected in most of the pigs.

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Thousands of people die each year from Japanese encephalitis (JE) caused by the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), probably due to exacerbation of the inflammatory response that impairs the course of the disease. Microglia are mononuclear phagocytic cells located within the parenchyma of the central nervous system; these play a key role in the innate immune response against JEV infections. However, the involvement of toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in the inflammatory response during the early stages of JEV infection in BV2 cells remains.

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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus. The emergence of CHIKV infection has raised global concern, and there is a growing need to develop safe and effective vaccines. Here, adenovirus 5 was used as the vaccine vector to construct recombinant adenoviruses expressing CHIKV E2, E1, and E2-6K-E1, respectively.

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  • Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) leads to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), significantly affecting the pig industry economically on a global scale.
  • A new strain, 2020-Acheng-1, isolated from deceased piglets in northeastern China, shows high morbidity and mortality rates and shares a high nucleotide similarity with the NADC34 strain but has unique genetic deletions in its genome.
  • Analysis indicates that 2020-Acheng-1 has distinct changes in protein structures compared to other strains, and it appears to have no genetic recombination with typical PRRSV-2 strains in China, offering insights into its pathogenicity.
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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and porcine circovirus (PCVs) are two major viruses that affect pigs. Coinfections between PRRSV and PCV2 are frequently reported in most outbreaks, with clinical presentations involving dyspnea, fever, reduced feed intake, weight loss, and death in fattening pigs. The NADC30-like PRRSV and PCV2d are the main circulating virus strains found in China.

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Porcine parvovirus (PPV) is the main pathogen of reproductive disorders. In recent years, a new type of porcine parvovirus has been discovered and named porcine parvovirus 2 to 7 (PPV2-PPV7), and it is associated with porcine circovirus type 2 in pigs. Codon usage patterns and their effects on the evolution and host adaptation of different PPV sub-types are still largely unknown.

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Background: Porcine vesicular disease is caused by the Seneca Valley virus (SVV), it is a novel Picornaviridae, which is prevalent in several countries. However, the pathogenicity of SVV on 5-6 week old pigs and the transmission routes of SVV remain unknown.

Methods: This research mainly focuses on the pathogenicity of the CH-GX-01-2019 strain and the possible vector of SVV.

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A novel circovirus designated "porcine circovirus type 4" (PCV4) was recently reported in pigs with severe clinical disease in Hunan Province, China. Relatively little is known about the molecular epidemiology of this recently discovered virus. In order to assess the prevalence of PCV4 infection in pigs and to analyze its genomic characteristics, 1683 clinical samples were collected in Inner Mongolia, China, from 2016 to 2018.

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  • The PRRSV (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus) significantly impacts the global pig industry, with the NADC30-like strain causing recent outbreaks in China.
  • The study focuses on the genome of the PRRSV-HB-16-China-2019 strain, which shows high similarity to NADC30 PRRSV but has notable deletions and mutations in its coding regions, particularly in NSP2.
  • These genetic changes suggest that PRRSV-HB-16-China-2019 is a new variant that complicates prevention strategies for PRRSV in China, highlighting the ongoing evolution of the virus.
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Seneca Valley virus (SVV) is a novel Picornaviridae that is closely associated with porcine idiopathic vesicular disease (PIVD). Here, a novel SVV strain (CH-GX-01-2019) was detected and isolated from swine in Guangxi Province, China. The complete genomic sequence of CH-GX-01-2019 exhibited 93.

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Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) infection causes substantial economic losses in pig populations since its discovery in 2016. However, PCV3 molecular epidemiology remains need further study. In order to assess the prevalence of PCV3 infection in China, 4094 clinical samples from 271 pig farms in 10 provinces of China were evaluated by PCR.

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an RNA virus that causes reproductive failure in sows and respiratory problems in piglets. PRRSV infection leads to substantial pig mortality and causing huge economic losses so that disease outbreaks caused by the new PRRSV strain from other regions have caused great concern in China. In this study, we analysed the pathogenicity of the novel ORF5 RFLP 1-7-4-like PRRSV strain, named PRRSV-ZDXYL-China-2018-1 in pigs.

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  • The porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) has been identified as a significant pathogen affecting pigs since its discovery in 2016, leading to major economic losses in the swine industry.
  • A study examined 269 mosquito samples from pig farms in China, revealing that 32.0% tested positive for PCV3, suggesting that mosquitoes could play a role in transmitting the virus.
  • Genome sequencing of PCV3 from mosquitoes and pigs showed a 100% similarity, with the virus categorized into two clades (PCV3a and PCV3b), further supporting the idea that mosquitoes may contribute to the virus's transmission cycle.
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The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is the causative agent of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS). Disease outbreaks caused by NADC30-like PRRSV strains were a bit prevalent in China in recent years. In the present study, two newly emerged PRRSV strains, which were designated as PRRSV-ZDXYL-China-2018-1 and PRRSV-ZDXYL-China-2018-2 strains were found from piglets' lung tissues in Northern China.

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Highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (HP-PRRS) poses a significant threat to the pig industry, for which vaccination is considered to be an effective means of prevention and control. Here, we developed two recombinant Newcastle disease virus (NDV) LaSota-vectored PRRS candidate vaccines, rLaSota-GP5 and rLaSota-GP3-GP5, using reverse genetic techniques. The two recombinant viruses exhibited a high degree of genetic stability after 10 successive generations in chicken embryos.

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) keeps causing economic damages in the swine sector across the globe. There has been emergence of the European (EU) genotype of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (Genotype-I PRRSV) in China in recent years. The presently available vaccines cannot unable to provide safeguard against PRRSV infection completely.

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Since the first description of canine circovirus (CanineCV)-associated infection, there have been several reports on the distribution of the disease in worldwide. To investigate the prevalence and genetic diversity of CanineCV in China, we conducted PCR screening of 1226 dog serum samples collected from different regions in mainland China between 2014 and 2016. CanineCV DNA was found in 81/926 serum samples from Guangxi Province.

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Background: First identified in the United States in 2016, porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) is a newly emerging porcine circovirus exhibiting a wide range of clinical syndromes, which may be associated with the pathogenicity observed in pigs.

Results: The aim of this study was to identify and characterize the full genome sequence of PCV3 strains circulating in Northeast China. Herein, 105 lung samples isolated from sick pigs in Northeast China during 2018 were analyzed for PCV3.

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Background: Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) was discovered in 1974 as a contaminant of a porcine kidney (PK-15) cell line and was generally accepted to be nonpathogenic. But recently it was shown to cause lesions in experimentally infected pig fetuses. Serological evidence and genetic studies suggested that PCV1 was widespread in domestic pigs.

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is almost always caused by the North American strain of PRRS virus (PRRSV) in China; the European genotype of PRRSV has emerged in China. The mixed infection of PRRSV and Porcine circovirus type 2 virus (PCV2) are always found in pigs and PRRSV-augmented PCV2 replication and serious clinical symptoms. Current vaccines cannot protect mixed European PRRSV and PCV2 infections.

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The Torque teno canis virus (TTCaV) is a small virus with circular single-stranded DNA that has been reported to cause infections in dogs. The present study aimed to identify the presence of TTCaV in blood samples obtained from domestic dogs, and examine its diversity and evolution of the genomes. Five strains of TTCaV were detected, and the overall prevalence was found to be 7% (28/400).

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  • The study aimed to investigate how mutations in specific amino acid residues of the NS1 protein affect the pathogenicity of influenza viruses, particularly by examining the protein's virulence-related sites.
  • Researchers cloned segments of the NS1 gene from the HIN1 subtype, created mutations at specific amino acids (aa42, aa81, aa149), and tested these mutated strains in chick embryos and mice.
  • Results indicated that a mutation at aa42 did not alter pathogenicity, while mutations at aa81 and aa149 reduced the virus's pathogenicity, providing insights for future studies on NS1's role in influenza's disease mechanisms.
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