Efficacy of E2-sub-unit marker and C-strain vaccines in reducing horizontal transmission of classical swine fever virus in weaner pigs

At present, two types of vaccines against classical swine fever (CSF) virus are commercially available: E2 sub-unit marker vaccines and the conventional attenuated live C-strain vaccines. To evaluate the reduction of the horizontal virus transmission, three comparable experiments were carried out in which groups of weaner pigs (vaccinated with a marker vaccine or a C-strain vaccine) were challenged with CSF virus at 0, 7, and 14 days post-vaccination (dpv). Virus transmission was prevented totally when the challenge occurred at 14 dpv with an E2-marker vaccine (0/12 contact pigs positive in virus isolation (VI); R = 0 (0; 1.5)). At 7 dpv, transmission was reduced slightly (5/12 contact pigs positive in VI; R = 1.0 (0.3; 3.0)), whereas at 0 dpv, vaccination had no effect on transmission (10/12 contact pigs positive in VI; R = 2.9 (1.5; 10.8)). In the C-strain-vaccinated pigs, no virus transmission was detected even when the challenge was performed at the same day as the vaccination (0/12 contact pigs positive in VI; R = 0 (0; 1.5)).     

猪瘟病毒野毒株和兔化弱毒疫苗株复合实时荧光定量RT-PCR鉴别方法的建立

根据GenBank中的猪瘟病毒强毒和弱毒株基因组序列设计了1对针对猪瘟病毒的通用引物和2条分别针对猪瘟病毒强毒和猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株的特异性TaqMan水解探针，建立了一种能区分猪瘟病毒强毒和兔化弱毒疫苗株的复合实时荧光定量RT—PCR检测方法。结果显示，该方法能将我国大陆流行的不同基因亚群的猪瘟病毒强毒株与猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株完全区分开来，而不与其他猪源病毒发生非特异反应，分别可检测到初始模板中41．8和81．5个拷贝的病毒RNA，与已建立的复合RT-套式PCR的敏感性相近，两种方法对152份样品检测的符合率达96．9％～100％。通过对8份猪瘟兔化细胞疫苗效价的检测，证实本方法与兔体反应热测定法有一定的相关性，可用于猪瘟病毒强毒株和兔化弱毒疫苗的定量和鉴别检测。     

猪瘟病毒荧光定量RT—PCR检测方法的建立及其初步应用

针对CSFV基因组5＇端非编码区序列设计并合成了高度特异的一对引物和一条探针,用于猪瘟病毒实时荧光定量PCR检测方法的建立。将提取的病毒的总RNA做为模板进行反转录和PCR,将PCR产物克隆到pMDl8-T载体后进行大肠杆菌转化,提取阳性质粒做为标准品绘制标准曲线,成功地建立了特异性检测CSFV的荧光定量RT-PCR方...     

用荧光定量RT-PCR方法检测猪瘟病毒

为了建立能特异检测不同基因型猪瘟病毒(Classical swine fever virus,CSFV),同时又能区分其他瘟病毒的基因检测方法,本实验针对CSFV基因组5′端非编码区设计并合成了简并引物和TaqMan探针,在优化反应条件的基础上,成功地建立了特异检测CSFV的荧光定量RT-PCR检测方法。再以已知滴度的CSFV石门株血毒总RNA反转录产物建立标准品,该标准品可以用于定量临床样品中的CSFV滴度,所建立的荧光定量PCR方法可以灵敏地检测出10~(-0.82)个TCID_(50)病毒含量。最后用建立的方法对108份临床样品进行检测并同时进行病毒分离,荧光定量PCR方法检测出73份阳性样品且与病毒分离的符合率为100%,而常规RT-PCR只检测出54份阳性样品,表明本荧光定量RT-PCR法在检测猪瘟病料上具有潜在的应用价值。     

应用定量RT-PCR对猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗的质量评价研究

为进一步验证猪瘟兔化弱毒(HCLV)疫苗荧光定量RT-PCR(qRT-PCR)与兔体定型热试验之间存在正相关性,本研究利用qRT-PCR方法对278批次HCLV疫苗进行检测,分别检测其疫苗含量及牛病毒性腹泻病毒(BVDV)污染情况。结果表明,278批次猪瘟疫苗中有66批(24%)疫苗含量达不到规程标准,有42批(15%)疫苗存在BVDV污染;从所检疫苗中抽取6份qRT-PCR检测HCLV含量较低的疫苗,采用兔体定型热试验进行验证,两种方法结果吻合,表明qRT-PCR方法可以作为评价猪瘟疫苗质量的一种备选方法。     

三个厂家猪瘟活疫苗免疫效果比较试验

在同一条件下对3个厂家生产的猪瘟细胞源活疫苗进行了免疫效果评价试验,并与猪瘟传代细胞苗免疫效果进行比较。结果发现3个厂家生产的猪瘟细胞源活疫苗存在一定差异,2个厂家的免疫效果较好,1个厂家的免疫效果较差。猪瘟传代细胞苗免疫效果优于猪瘟细胞源活疫苗,猪瘟传代细胞苗免疫1次,抗体合格率高,持续时间长,猪瘟细胞源活疫苗要免疫两次才能获得比较好的效果。同时,我们发现高致病性猪蓝耳病活疫苗（JXA1-R株）对猪瘟抗体产生有一定影响。     

河源某猪场两种猪瘟疫苗田间免疫效果对比试验

通过在河源某猪场,对不同厂家两种猪瘟疫苗单独使用及混合使用后的的免疫效果对比,得出以下结论：首免和二免均使用猪瘟传代细胞苗免疫的效果最好;首免使用猪瘟脾淋苗,二免使用猪瘟传代细胞苗免疫的效果次之;首免和二免均使用脾淋苗免疫的效果最差。     

A promising multiple-epitope recombinant vaccine against classical swine fever virus

Classical swine fever (CSF) is a highly contagious and often fatal disease of swine. It is caused by classical swine fever virus (CSFV), one of the members of the genus Pestivirus of the Flaviviridae family. The development of a safe and effective vaccine against the CSF is critical to pandemic control, this article shows a tandem-repeat multiple-epitope recombinant vaccine can protect pigs from CSFV challenge. That was composed as following: two copies each of glycoprotein E2 residues 693–707, 241–276 and 770–781, and two copies amino acid residues 1446–1460 of the non-structural protein NS2-3. In the challenge test, all of the swine vaccinated with Chinese vaccine strain (C-strain) were fully protected from a challenge with CSFV. However, after three successive vaccinations with the multiple-epitope recombinant vaccine, three out of five pigs were protected from challenge with CSFV (in terms of both clinical signs and viremia). These results demonstrate that multiple-epitope recombinant vaccine which carrying the major CSFV epitopes can induce a high level of epitope-specific antibodies and exhibit a protective capability that parallels induced by C-strain to a certain extent.     

筛选猪瘟抗体阴性猪检测方法的比较

评价ELISA法用于筛选猪瘟抗体阴性猪的可行性,分别采用两种商品化猪瘟抗体ELISA检测试剂盒检测了61份猪血清样品,并与兔体中和试验方法进行了比较。兔体中和试验法检测出4份阳性、2份可疑、55份阴性,而两种ELISA试剂盒均检测出6份阳性、55份阴性;两种ELISA方法与兔体中和试验检测结果阴性符合率均为100%（55/55）。结果表明,ELISA法更加敏感,可以替代兔体中和试验方法用于筛选猪瘟抗体阴性猪。     

A multiplex RT-PCR assay for the rapid and differential diagnosis of classical swine fever and other pestivirus infections

Classical swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease causing severe economic losses in pig production almost worldwide. All pestivirus species can infect pigs, therefore accurate and rapid pestivirus detection and differentiation is of great importance to assure control measures in swine farming. Here we describe the development and evaluation of a novel multiplex, highly sensitive and specific RT-PCR for the simultaneous detection and rapid differentiation between CSFV and other pestivirus infections in swine. The universal and differential detection was based on primers designed to amplify a fragment of the 5′ non-coding genome region for the detection of pestiviruses and a fragment of the NS5B gene for the detection of classical swine fever virus. The assay proved to be specific when different pestivirus strains from swine and ruminants were evaluated. The analytical sensitivity was estimated to be as little as 0.89 TCID₅₀. The assay analysis of 30 tissue homogenate samples from naturally infected and non-CSF infected animals and 40 standard serum samples evaluated as part of two European Inter-laboratory Comparison Tests conducted by the European Community Reference Laboratory, Hanover, Germany proved that the multiplex RT-PCR method provides a rapid, highly sensitive, and cost-effective laboratory diagnosis for classical swine fever and other pestivirus infections in swine.     

猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株基因组的遗传变异分析

参照已发表的猪瘟病毒基因组序列设计了9对引物，用RT-PCR从猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株细胞培养物中扩增得到了覆盖猪瘟病毒基因组全长的9个cDNA片段，将所得cDNA片段分别克隆至pMD18-T载体中，经测序和拼接后，获得了猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株基因组全序列。序列分析表明，猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株基因组全长12310个碱基，其5’非编码区（5＇-NCR）和3＇-NCR分别由373和239个碱基组成，在3’末端有富含T的碱基插入，其间为1个大的开放阅读框架，编码3898个氨基酸残基的多聚蛋白，与国内外已发表的另外7个猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株基因组全序列相比，核苷酸同源性为98．7％～99．9％，氨基酸同源性为98．6％～99．9％。基因组全序列比较显示，猪瘟兔化弱毒疫苗株基因组在遗传上相当稳定。     

牛病毒性腹泻病毒感染对猪瘟免疫的影响

猪瘟病毒（CSFV）与同属的牛病毒性腹泻病病毒（BVDV）同源性较高,抗原性上有交叉。本次调查对368份猪瘟免疫猪血清样本进行BVDV抗原检测,其中7份呈阳性,阳性率1.90%。对7份BVDV阳性血清采用ELISA和IHA两种方法检测猪瘟（CSFV）抗体水平,抗体合格率偏低,两者的结果符合率为71%。研究表明：BVDV在一定程度上干扰了猪瘟疫苗的免疫效果,影响抗体水平。     

CSFV的RT-PCR检测在控制与净化猪瘟中的应用

应用反转录-聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)检测健康猪扁桃体猪瘟病毒以监控与净化猪瘟.2006年用RT-PCR对广西某存栏250头种猪场的母猪扁桃体连续进行3次猪瘟病毒检测,检出并清除带毒猪,猪群中猪瘟病毒的带毒猪明显下降.结果表明,RT-PCR检测猪扁桃体可应用于猪场猪瘟的控制与净化.     

种猪场猪瘟和伪狂犬病净化策略浅析

猪瘟和伪狂犬病作为两种不同类别的重要动物疫病在我国种猪场仍普遍存在,直接或间接影响着种猪行业的健康发展。近年来,随着猪瘟和伪狂犬病的综合防控措施及诊断技术的不断突破与革新,为猪瘟和伪狂犬病的净化工作奠定了基础,同时两病净化作为一项重要项目前已被列入国家中长期动物疫病防治规划。本文结合监测技术同疫病防控,旨为种猪场猪瘟和伪狂犬病的净化提供相适应的技术路线。     

泉州市洛江区猪瘟抗体水平检测效果分析

结合实验室每年的检测工作,2013-2014年对洛江区辖区内20个生猪规模养殖场和89个散养户的856份猪血清进行猪瘟疫苗免疫抗体检测。结果表明:洛江区猪瘟疫苗免疫抗体合格率呈现上升趋势,规模场猪瘟疫苗免疫抗体合格率明显高于散养户,免疫2次的抗体合格率明显高于1次。抗体检测工作的开展,对制定科学合理的免疫程序,有效防控猪瘟疫情的发生发挥了积极的作用。     

Simulating the spread of classical swine fever virus between a hypothetical wild-boar population and domestic pig herds in Denmark

Denmark has no free-range wild-boar population. However, Danish wildlife organizations have suggested that wild boar should be reintroduced into the wild to broaden national biodiversity. Danish pig farmers fear that this would lead to a higher risk of introduction of classical swine fever virus (CSFV), which could have enormous consequences in terms of loss of pork exports. We conducted a risk assessment to address the additional risk of introducing and spreading CSFV due to the reintroduction of wild boar. In this paper, we present the part of the risk assessment that deals with the spread of CSFV between the hypothetical wild-boar population and the domestic population. Furthermore, the economic impact is assessed taking the perspective of the Danish national budget and the Danish pig industry. We used InterSpreadPlus to model the differential classical swine fever (CSF) risk due to wild boar. Nine scenarios were run to elucidate the effect of: (a) presence of wild boar (yes/no), (b) locations for the index case (domestic pig herd/wild-boar group), (c) type of control strategy for wild boar (hunting/vaccination) and (d) presence of free-range domestic pigs. The presence of free-range wild boar was simulated in two large forests using data from wildlife studies and Danish habitat data. For each scenario, we estimated (1) the control costs borne by the veterinary authorities, (2) the control-related costs to farmers and (3) the loss of exports associated with an epidemic. Our simulations predict that CSFV will be transmitted from the domestic pig population to wild boar if the infected domestic pig herd is located close to an area with wild boar (<5 km). If an outbreak begins in the wild-boar population, the epidemic will last longer and will occasionally lead to several epidemics because of periodic transfer of virus from groups of infected wild boar to domestic pig herds. The size and duration of the epidemic will be reduced if there are no free-range domestic pig herds in the area with CSF-infected wild boar. The economic calculations showed that the total national costs for Denmark (i.e. the direct costs to the national budget and the costs to the pig industry) related to an outbreak of CSF in Denmark will be highly driven by the reactions of the export markets and in particular of the non-EU markets. Unfortunately, there is a substantial amount of uncertainty surrounding this issue. If hunting is used as a control measure, the average expenses related to a CSF outbreak will be 40% higher if wild boar are present compared with not present. However, a vaccination strategy for wild boar will double the total costs compared with a hunting strategy.     

猪瘟诊断方法的研究进展

猪瘟是由猪瘟病毒引起的一种急性、发热性、接触性传染病,可引起各种年龄猪发病。随着对猪瘟病毒研究的深入,猪瘟在一定程度上得到了有效控制。但是近年来,世界各国流行的猪瘟在流行病学、临床症状和病理变化等方面出现了一些新的变化,猪瘟的防控出现了许多新的情况。我国猪瘟的发病率亦呈上升趋势,严重威胁着我国养猪业的发展,给养猪业造成了极大的经济损失。因此,建立准确的实验室诊断方法,对于预防和控制猪瘟有重要意义。本文综述了猪瘟诊断技术方面的研究进展,为猪瘟的及时诊断提供参考。     

Factors critical for successful vaccination against classical swine fever in endemic areas

Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera, caused by the classical swine fever virus (CSFV), is one of the most important viral diseases that cause serious economic loss to the swine industry worldwide. During the past 5 years, several techniques for measuring porcine cell-mediated immunity (CMI) were applied, in conjunction with other conventional techniques, to study factors that influence the induction of CSFV-specific immunity. Information, obtained from a series of experiments, demonstrated cell-mediated immune responses in providing protective immunity against CSF infection. Although it has been confirmed that commercially available modified live CSF vaccines are able to induce complete protection in vaccinated pigs, several factors including maternal immunity, the age of primary vaccination, vaccination protocol and complications caused by other pathogens, can greatly affect the effectiveness of CSF vaccines in the field.