Phylogenetic Classification of Global Porcine Deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) Reference Strains and Molecular Characterization of PDCoV in Taiwan

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 13; no. 7; p. 1337
• Main Authors: Hsueh, Fu-Chun, Hsu, Feng-Yang, Chen, Yu-Hsuan, Shih, Hsing-Chun, Lin, Wei-Hao, Yang, Cheng-Yao, Lin, Chuen-Fu, Chiou, Ming-Tang, Lin, Chao-Nan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 11.07.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Anorexia; Brief Report; China; Classification; Coronaviruses; Diarrhea; enteropathogens; Epidemics; Genes; Genomes; Hogs; Mutation; North America; Nucleotide sequence; phylogenetic analysis; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV); Porcine deltacoronaviruses; probability; Proteins; Recombination; Strains (organisms); Taiwan; viruses; Vomiting; Whole genome sequencing; Vietnam; United States > US; China; Japan; Taiwan; Hong Kong China; Mexico; Thailand; Laos; North America

Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV), a highly transmissible intestinal pathogen, causes mild to severe clinical symptoms, such as anorexia, vomiting and watery diarrhea, in piglets and/or sows. Since the first report of PDCoV infection in Hong Kong in 2012, the virus has readily disseminated to North A...