Pathogenicity of a skin isolate of porcine parvovirus in swine fetuses

The pathogenic properties of a skin isolate of porcine parvovirus (PPV), designated Kresse isolate, were compared with NADL-8 isolate, a prototype isolate of PPV, by in utero inoculation of mid-term and late-term gestation swine fetuses. Fetuses from pregnant sows of mid-gestation were inoculated with either NADL-8 or Kresse virus. Both isolates were highly pathogenic to mid-gestation fetuses. In contrast, dramatic differences in pathogenicity between these 2 isolates were observed in fetuses inoculated late in gestation. Such fetuses from each of 4 sows were inoculated with NADL-8 or Kresse virus isolate and sacrificed at 10, 18, 21, or 23 days postinoculation (PI). NADL-8-inoculated fetuses were grossly normal. The pathogenic effects of Kresse isolate were evident by gross pathology in fetuses collected at 18, 21, and 23 days PI, but not at 10 days PI. Hemagglutination (HA) and fluorescent antibody (FA) methods were used to identify virus in various tissues of late-gestation fetuses collected at 10 and 21 days PI. At 10 days PI, HA antigens were detected only in livers of NADL-8-inoculated fetuses, but in all tissues examined of Kresse-inoculated fetuses, including the brain. PPV specific fluorescence was demonstrated in tissues of fetuses inoculated with NADL-8 and Kresse virus. The major difference was that virus antigen was found in the brains of fetuses inoculated with Kresse virus, but not in NADL-8 infected fetuses. At 21 days PI, HA antigen was not detected in any of the tissues of fetuses inoculated with NADL-8 virus, with PPV specific fluorescence by FA being found only in the kidney. However, fetuses inoculated with Kresse virus displayed HA antigen in liver and PPV-specific fluorescence in all tissues tested including the brain. Both isolates induced similar antibody responses, 1:128 to 1:256 at 10 days and 1:512 to 1:1024 at 21 days PI. In addition, immunoglobulin G (IgG) deposits were demonstrated in kidneys and skin of fetuses inoculated with Kresse virus and IgM in brain, but not in tissues from fetuses inoculated with NADL-8 virus.     

Persistence of porcine parvovirus in swine infected in utero and followed through maturity

The potential of porcine parvovirus (PPV) to persistently infect swine exposed in utero was studied. Forty eight 80- to 95-day-old fetuses from 5 PPV seropositive sows were inoculated intramusculary with a virulent strain of PPV or with cell culture medium (controls). Blood samples were collected at birth prior to nursing and at monthly intervals thereafter and tested for antibodies to PPV. Virus-inoculated and control pigs were euthanized at either 1 week before birth (-1), at birth (0) and at weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 22, and 28 after birth. Presence of viral DNA and antigen was evaluated using slot blot DNA hybridization and indirect FA techniques, respectively. All inoculated fetuses (n = 26) and 7 control fetuses (n = 22) seroconverted in utero, and these pigs maintained antibody titers greater than log10 2 for the period of testing (0-38 weeks after birth). After passive antibody titers had reached subdetectable levels in control animals, animals remained seronegative through an additional 14 weeks of testing in spite of close contact with infected pigs. Virus antigen was not detected in any tissues examined from pigs euthanized at term. In contrast, PPV DNA was detected consistently from pigs at birth from various tissues, and from the lung of one pig at 6 weeks of age and from the lymph nodes of one pig euthanized at 28 weeks of age. The results indicate that pigs infected with PPV in utero may be persistently infected, however the likelihood of shedding to contact animals is minimal.     

Monocyte-derived dendritic cells enhance cell proliferation and porcine circovirus type 2 replication in concanavalin A-stimulated swine peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro

Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells cooperating with other immune cells for the activation of innate and adaptive immune responses. The objective of the present study was to investigate the replication activity of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in DCs and/or lymphocytes during their cross talk and its possible mechanism. Two models were set, herein. Swine blood monocyte (Mo)-derived DCs (MoDCs) or peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were inoculated with PCV2 prior to their co-cultivation. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and concanavalin A (Con A) were used to stimulate MoDCs and PBLs, respectively. During 6 days of cultivation, a high PCV2 antigen-containing rate without detectable intranuclear signals and a slight but significant increase in the copy number of PCV2 genome were detected in PCV2-inoculated MoDCs. The presence of LPS alone or PCV2-free PBLs, however, had no effect on the location of PCV2 antigens or copy number of PCV2 genome in PCV2-inoculated MoDCs. On the contrary, active PCV2 replication occurred in Con A-stimulated PCV2-inoculated PBLs. When compared with blood Mos, MoDCs induced significantly higher cell proliferation and intensified PCV2 replication in Con A-stimulated PCV2-inoculated PBLs, for which direct contact between MoDCs and lymphocytes was required. Among the cytokines secreted by Con A-activated PBLs, interleukin (IL)-2, but not IL-4 or interferon-γ, could induce cell proliferation and PCV2 replication in PCV2-inoculated PBLs. The findings suggest that although MoDCs support only limited PCV2 replication in themselves, their accessory cell function is required for cell proliferation and PCV2 replication in PCV2-infected lymphocytes.     

纳米铝胶佐剂增强猪细小病毒灭活疫苗猪体免疫的效果

将20头35日龄断奶仔猪随机分为4组,将制备的纳米铝胶佐剂猪细小病毒(Porcine parvovirus,PPV)灭活疫苗肌肉注射免疫接种,并以常规铝胶佐剂PPV灭活疫苗组、市售PPV油乳剂灭活疫苗组为疫苗对照,生理盐水组做阴性对照,应用HI和ELISA检测接种猪的体液免疫水平,流式细胞仪检测免疫猪的细胞免疫水平。体液免疫检测结果显示,PPV纳米铝胶佐剂疫苗组能显著提高机体产生抗体的速度,在首免后第2周产生有效保护抗体水平显著高于油乳剂疫苗和常规铝胶佐剂疫苗组(P0.05),在第3周其抗体水平达到峰值;细胞免疫检测结果显示,3种疫苗均能诱导机体产生细胞免疫应答,但各组之间差异不显著(P0.05)。结果表明,以纳米铝胶为佐剂制备的猪细小病毒灭活疫苗,能显著提高机体的免疫水平,并较早刺激机体产生抗体,具有较好的免疫保护效果。     

猪细小病毒在PK15细胞中增殖规律的研究

猪细小病毒毒株在不同细胞系上的生长情况不尽相同,如不能掌握其规律,将难以生产出优质的疫苗。对PPV（长春株）在PK15和ST细胞上生长情况进行了研究,在PK15细胞系中重点比较了不同的病毒接种方法、病毒接种量和病毒收获时间等因素对病毒产量的影响。研究结果显示：本毒株在PK15和ST两种细胞系上的病变特征不同,但生长规模相似。在PK15细胞上按2％接种量、分步接种、80h时收获病毒,最终得到的病毒滴度（TCID50）最高。提示这是一种比较好的生产方案。然而,进一步的大规模培养试验是有必要的。     

Detection of antibodies against porcine parvovirus in swine sera by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for detection of antibody against porcine parvovirus in swine sera. The antigen used for the assay was partially-purified virus treated with fluorocarbon and shown to contain 7 proteins by sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Of these proteins 83-, 64- and 60-K proteins reacted in Western immunoblotting with swine serum after infection with porcine parvovirus. Antibody responses were demonstrated by ELISA in pigs subcutaneously-infected with porcine parvovirus as by hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test and Western immunoblotting reaction with the 83-, 64- and 60-K viral proteins. The results of ELISA on random swine-serum samples were well-correlated with those of the HI test. These findings indicate the usefulness of the ELISA as a serological tool for porcine parvovirus infection.     

猪细小病毒细胞适应株的培育及鉴定

从临床表现为皮炎消瘦症状的仔猪肝脏中分离到1株病毒,经聚合酶链式反应（PCR）证实为猪细小病毒（PPV）,采用仔猪原代肾细胞和传代ST细胞分离培养,经蚀斑克隆纯化,培育1株ST传代细胞培养适应毒株,命名为PPV-BQ2007株。免疫过氧化物酶单层细胞试验（IPMA）检测病毒抗原主要分布在细胞核及细胞质内。病毒感染细胞可被已知PPV阳性血清中和。免疫电镜可清晰见到聚集成团的大小不一的病毒粒子,近似圆形,无囊膜,直径大小约20nm-22nm。该分离株经ST细胞培养传代,能够产生典型的细胞病变,病毒滴度随代次显著增加,第30代后毒价达10^7 TCID50/mL以上,且毒价和血凝价稳定。测序结果表明PPV-BQ2007株VP2基因与NCBI公布的皮炎型毒株Kresse株的同源性最高,达99.8％,在系统进化分支上处于同一个分支。PPV-BQ2007株传代细胞培养适应株的成功培育和鉴定,为进一步开展该病毒流行病学、致病机理、疫苗免疫与诊断研究等奠定了良好基础。     

多重PCR同时检测猪圆环病毒2型,猪细小病毒,猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒和猪瘟病毒

本试验建立一种可同时检测猪圆环病毒2型(PCV-2),猪细小病毒(PPV),猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒(PRRSV),猪瘟病毒(CSFV)4种病毒的多重PCR方法.对于每一种特定的病毒,用4对寡核苷酸引物均能特异扩增其目的片段.以含有病毒目的片段的质粒为模板,测定了多重PCR的检测灵敏度,PRRSV和CSFV检测最低限是48 pg,而PPV和PCV-2为0.48 pg.利用建立的多重PCR方法对具有产自有繁殖障碍母猪的仔猪或具有呼吸障碍症状的76个仔猪样本进行检测.检出了4种病毒的存在,其中26个样本(34.2%)同时感染了2种以上病毒.结果表明多重PCR方法检测猪混合感染的病毒,是一种快速、灵敏、低成本、高效率的病原学诊断工具.     

Prenatal and preweaning deaths caused by pseudorabies virus and porcine parvovirus in a swine herd

Sequential outbreaks of pseudorabies virus and porcine parvovirus infections were documented at a swine farm in southern Minnesota. Data for the prevalence of mummified fetuses born and the preweaning mortality were recorded over a 3-year-period. The farm was a farrow-to-finish facility, with breeding females housed in 4 groups according to their stage of pregnancy. The herd consisted of approximately 130 breeding females in December 1981, and expanded to 220 females during the 12 months of 1982. Excluding the outbreaks, the mean preweaning mortality was 20.43% (SE 1.59) and the number of mummified fetuses per litter was 0.19 (SE 0.01). An outbreak of porcine parvovirus infection caused the preweaning mortality and number of mummified fetuses to increase to 50% and 4.10 per litter, respectively. Two outbreaks of pseudorabies 27 months apart, caused the preweaning mortality to increase to 95% and 82%, and the number of mummified fetuses to increase to 0.96 and 1.25 mummified fetuses per litter, respectively. The increase in mummification was observed 1 month after the increase in preweaning mortality caused by pseudorabies virus infections, whereas the increase in mummification and preweaning mortality was simultaneous with porcine parvovirus infections.     

Viral wasting syndrome of swine: experimental reproduction of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in gnotobiotic swine by coinfection with porcine circovirus 2 and porcine parvovirus

One-day-old gnotobiotic piglets were inoculated intranasally with in vitro passaged porcine circovirus 1 (PCV-1), PCV-2, and porcine parvovirus (PPV) alone or in combination (PCV-1/PCV-2, PCV-1/PPV, and PCV-2/PPV). Piglets were evaluated for 1) the development of porcine postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), 2) distribution of viral antigens by immunochemistry, and 3) viremia and the presence of viral DNA in nasal and ocular secretions and feces. All single agent-infected piglets and piglets infected with PCV-1/PCV-2 or PCV-1/PPV were clinically asymptomatic. They were transiently viremic and seroconverted to homologous virus(es). At termination of the study on postinfection day (PID) 35, microscopic lesions were restricted to focal inflammatory cell infiltrates in livers and myocardia. One piglet given PCV-1/PPV was PPV viremic for 2 weeks after infection and had lymphangiectasia of the spiral and descending colon associated with granulomatous inflammation. All four PCV-2/PPV-inoculated piglets developed PMWS, characterized by sudden onset of depression and anorexia, icterus, and submucosal edema. One piglet became moribund on PID 27, and the remaining three piglets were euthanatized between PID 27 and PID 30 because of severe disease. Lymph nodes were small and the livers were mottled. Disseminated angiocentric granulomatous inflammation was present in all tissues examined except the brain. Multiple lightly basophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies were identified in macrophages and histiocytes. PCV-2 antigen was widely distributed within macrophages; PPV antigen was sparse. Hepatocellular necrosis and bile retention were prominent. PCV-2 DNA was identified in ocular, fecal, and nasal secretions. Terminal sera contained antibodies to PPV (4/4) and PCV-2 (3/ 4). Production of PMWS in gnotobiotic swine appears to require PCV-2 and additional infectious agents such as PPV for full disease expression in gnotobiotic piglets.     

Simultaneous detection of porcine circovirus type 2, classical swine fever virus,porcine parvovirus and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in pigs by multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Results from a previous study indicated that there are specific arena surface characteristics that are associated with an increased likelihood of lameness in dressage horses. It is important to understand what modifiable arena factors lead to these detrimental surface characteristics. The aim of this study was to describe the use of training surfaces and arenas for United Kingdom dressage horses and to investigate any relationships between arena/surface variables and detrimental surface characteristics. Data from a questionnaire returned by 22.5% of all 11,363 registered members of British Dressage were used for the study. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression models were developed with each of the previously identified surface characteristics as dependent variables. Respondents reported that the majority of arenas were privately owned, sized 20 × 40 m and had a sand and rubber surface. The results indicated that wax-coated and sand and rubber surfaces were associated with less detrimental surface properties than sand, sand and PVC, woodchips or grass. Woodchips were most strongly associated with the detrimental characteristic of slipping, and sand with tripping. The findings indicated that any arena surface should have a base, with limestone the recommended surface, and that crushed concrete was best avoided. This information supported previous studies in racehorses that indicated that surface maintenance is essential, especially when many horses are using an arena daily. Problems were less likely if an arena was privately owned.     

In vitro effect of classical swine fever virus on a porcine aortic endothelial cell line

The effect of classical swine fever (CSF) virus on some phenotypic and functional features of an established porcine aortic endothelial cell (AOC) line was investigated. AOC cells show most of the characteristics of primary endothelial cells, avoiding the alterations and senescence that these cells undergo after a few passages in culture. AOC cells were susceptible to CSF virus infection to a high degree, reaching 90% of CSF virus positive cells after 24 h of infection; however as with other porcine susceptible cells, no cytopathic effect could be observed. In these conditions none of the surface molecules studied, including SLA-II MHC antigens, adhesion or co-stimulatory molecules, were altered by virus infection after 24 or 48 h. Functionally CSF virus infection induced a decrease in the pro-coagulant activity of the AOC cells, determined by the increase in the clot formation time shown by the lysates of these cells. This contrasts with the increase observed in the expression of mRNA corresponding to IL-1 alpha and IL-6, two proinflammatory and pro-coagulant cytokines, in CSF virus-infected AOC cells.     

猪瘟病毒猪细小病毒猪伪狂犬病病毒 PCR检测方法的建立

猪瘟、猪细小病毒感染和猪伪狂犬病是3种最为常见的、引起猪繁殖障碍的传染性疾病，在世界范围内广泛流行，给养猪业带来严重的经济损失。在兽医临床上这3种疾病有时呈混合感染，且临床表现相似，给临床诊断造成很大困难。目前对这3种疾病的确诊方法都存在着繁琐、耗时、特异性差等缺点，因而有必要建立一种特异、快速、灵敏的诊断方法用于这些疾病的临床诊断和检测。     

Vaccination of swine with an inactivated porcine parvovirus vaccine in the presence of passive immunity

A study was conducted to determine whether low hemagglutination inhibiting (HI) titers (1:5) for porcine parvovirus (PPV) block the development of immune response to a PPV vaccine. Pigs with low (1:5), medium (1:10 or 1:20), or high (1:40 or 1:80) titers were obtained by IV injections with various amounts of PPV immune serum. Pigs were inoculated with 1 or 2 doses of vaccine and were monitored for serum HI antibodies to PPV. Pigs with low titers responded to vaccine just as well as did the seronegative pigs. The HI titers of pigs with medium titers did not increase after first vaccination. After the second vaccination, however, their titers increased and were similar to those of pigs with low titers. High titers blocked the response to vaccination. The pigs that received 2 doses of vaccine had higher titers than did those of pigs that received 1 dose of vaccine. The results indicated that low titers, which would be expected in gilts at the time of vaccination, do not interfere with immunization by the inactivated PPV vaccine, and that 2 doses of vaccine may provide better and longer lasting immune response to inactivated PPV vaccine and probably longer lasting immunity against PPV-induced reproductive failure.     

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces porcine circovirus type 2 replication in swine alveolar macrophages

Monocyte/macrophage lineage cells are major target cells of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2). From tissues of field pigs suffering from postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), both intracytoplasmic and intranuclear PCV2 signals, including antigens and nucleic acid, were easily detected in the monocyte/macrophage lineage cells. However, there was a high incidence of intracytoplasmic PCV2-positive signals, but lack of intranuclear signals and PCV2 replication in these cells in vitro. Concurrent infection with bacteria and activation of immune system are suggested to promote viral replication. In this study, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) were used to stimulate PCV2-inoculated alveolar macrophages (AMs). A decrease in intracytoplasmic but increase in intranuclear PCV2-positive signals, including antigens and nucleic acid, were detected in LPS-treated PCV2-inoculated AMs, but not in PMA-treated cells. Additionally, the replication product corresponding to PCV2 spliced major capsid protein (Cap) mRNA and a significant elevation in PCV2 titer were demonstrated in the LPS-treated PCV2-inoculated AMs. The results imply that Gram-negative bacterial co-infection in PCV2-infected pigs may be an important factor in promoting PCV2 replication and contributing, at least partially, to the full development of PMWS.