Senecavirus A (SVA) infection causes vesicular disease in pigs and acute death of newborn piglets. Frequent gene mutation and recombination events lead to difficulties for SVA prevention and eradication, especially impeding the development of effective vaccine or treatment drug. SVA nonstructural 3 A protein plays an important role in viral replication and various immune evasion pathways, which makes it a potential therapeutic target.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) and porcine sapelovirus (PSV) are two viruses that can cause diarrhoea in pigs and bring great economic loss to the pig industry. In this research, a duplex real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay based on SYBR Green I was developed to simultaneously detect PDCoV and PSV. No specific melting peaks were found in other porcine diarrhoea-associated viruses, indicating that the method developed in this study had good specificity.
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