Investigation and Analysis of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus,Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus and Pseudorabies Virus of Swine Diarrhea Cases in Shandong Province

To understand porcine viral diarrhea prevalence in the large-scale pig farms of Shandong province, a total of 3 035 clinical samples were detected by PCR from January, 2014 to December, 2016.Those samples were detected for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) and pseudorabies virus (PRV). The results showed that the detection rate of PEDV, PRV and TGEV were 67.49%, 9.33% and 3.29%, respectively.During the past three years, the lowest detection rate of PEDV was 48.15% in the fourth quarter of 2014,and the highest was 88.57% in the fourth quarter of 2015.In 2016,the detection rate represented fluctuate declining compared with 2015.The highest positive rate of TGEV was 18.52% in the fourth quarter of 2014,and in the third quarter of 2015 was 15.38%.The lowest positive rate of TGEV was 6.67% in the first quarter of 2016 and TGEV was not detected in the other quarters. The highest detection rate of RPV was 15.68% in the second quarter of 2016,and the lowest was 2.56% in the second quarter of 2014,except the first quarter of 2014 that the PRV was 0. By detecting three kinds of viruses in 69 clinical samples collected passively, the results showed that the detection rate of PEDV,TGEV and PRV were 86.96%,5.80% and 37.68%,respectively. The total single infection rate was 69.57%,the single infection rates of PEDV,TGEV and PRV were 57.97%,1.45% and 10.14%, respectively;The total mixed infection rate was 30.43%,the mixed infection rates of PEDV/PRV,PEDV/TGEV and TGEV/PRV were 26.09%,2.90% and 1.45%, respectively;Obviously, the total single infection rate was higher than the total mixed infection rate. The results showed that the PEDV, PRV and TGEV were prevailing in Shandong province. There were PEDV/TGEV, TGEV/PRV, PEDV/PRV mixed infection, and the number of PEDV/PRV mixed infection was in the majority. However, there was no PEDV/PRV/TGEV mixed type infection. At present, PEDV was the major pathogen of porcine viral diarrhea and the test results could provide the reference to the diagnosis of porcine viral diarrhea.     

山东省猪腹泻病例中PEDV、TGEV和PRV的感染调查与分析

为了解山东省规模化猪场由猪流行性腹泻病毒（PEDV）、猪传染性胃肠炎病毒（TGEV）和猪伪狂犬病毒（PRV）引起猪病毒性腹泻的流行情况,自2014年1月至2016年12月,对来自山东省各地规模化猪场的猪腹泻病料（共3 035份）进行PCR检测。结果显示,PEDV、PRV和TGEV阳性率分别为67.49%、9.33%和3.29%;3年间,PEDV阳性率在2014年第四季度最低,为48.15%,2015年第四季度阳性率最高,为88.57%,2016年各季度阳性率相对2015年呈波动下降趋势;TGEV阳性率在2014年第四季度最高,为18.52%,2015年第三季度阳性率为15.38%,2016年第一季度阳性率为6.67%,其他季度未检测出阳性病料;PRV阳性率在2016年第二季度最高,为15.68%,除2014年第一季度未检出阳性病料外,2014年第二季度阳性率最低,为2.56%。通过对69份被动送检的病料进行PEDV、TGEV和PRV混合感染检测发现,这部分病料中PEDV、TGEV、PRV阳性率分别为86.96%、5.80%和37.68%;总单独感染率为69.57%,PEDV、TGEV和PRV单独感染率分别为57.97%、1.45%和10.14%;总混合感染率为30.43%,PEDV/PRV、PEDV/TGEV和TGEV/PRV混合感染率分别为26.09%、2.90%和1.45%;总单独感染率比总混合感染率高。结果表明,山东省存在PEDV、PRV和TGEV 3种病毒流行,存在PEDV/TGEV、TGEV/PRV和PEDV/PRV的混合感染,混合感染中主要为PEDV/PRV混合感染,不存在PEDV/PRV/TGEV的混合感染。目前PEDV是引起山东省猪病毒性腹泻的主要病因,本试验结果可为山东省猪病毒性腹泻的诊断和控制提供参考。     

贵州省猪传染性胃肠炎及呼吸冠状病毒病血清学调查

用酶联免疫吸附试验对采自贵州省内88个县(市)的2906份血清进行了猪传染性胃肠炎病毒及呼吸冠状病毒抗体检测,结果检出猪传染性胃肠炎病毒抗体阳性血清12份,总体阳性率为0.41%;猪呼吸冠状病毒抗体阳性血清44份,总体阳性率为1.51%;2818份血清两种抗体均呈阴性(阴性率为96.97%),32份血清检测无效或无结论(无效率为1.10%)。     

猪流行性腹泻病毒和猪传染性胃肠炎病毒一步法双重RT-PCR检测方法的建立与应用

本研究旨在建立一种用于临床腹泻病例中猪流行性腹泻病毒（PEDV）和猪传染性胃肠炎病毒（TGEV）快速检测的一步法双重RT-PCR方法。根据GenBank中收录的PEDV和TGEV的基因序列,分别设计两对特性引物,经最佳反应条件的优化和选择,结果显示,该一步法双重RT-PCR检测方法能同时特异性扩增PEDV和TGEV,该方法可检测到稀释度1×10^-5的疫苗毒。应用本方法检测2015年度实验室收集的疑似样品,PEDV阳性率为100%。本研究建立的方法快速、敏感性高、特异性强,可用于临床PEDV和TGEV的快速检测及流行病学调查。     

Gait deficits in liver disease: Hepatic encephalopathy and hepatic myelopathy

In this issue, the unusual clinical presentation of a horse diagnosed is described with severe liver cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy. The horse initially presented for thoracic and pelvic limb ataxia and weakness, and signs of forebrain disease were not apparent until later in the disease process. The typical pathology of central nervous system disease associated with liver disease is related to encephalopathy and forebrain disease; however, the spinal cord is occasionally also involved. Hepatic myelopathy is a rare syndrome usually associated with surgical or acquired portosystemic shunts, liver cirrhosis and/or portal hypertension in man. Where a gliopathy is the most prominent pathological feature seen in hepatic encephalopathy, in hepatic myelopathy the most remarkable feature is demyelination of the corticospinal tracts of the distal cervical and thoracic spinal cord with occasional axon loss. The clinical signs of hepatic myelopathy are spastic paresis/paralysis with normal sensory findings and preserved sphincter function. The prognosis for hepatic myelopathy is generally poor. In summary, in severe liver disease, motor deficits can occur secondary to the encephalopathy, but motor deficits can also occur as a result of spinal cord pathology such as seen in hepatic myelopathy. In examination of horses with myelopathies, liver disease as a cause of myelopathy should be included in our list of differentials.     

基于网络药理学探究乌梅散加减方治疗猪传染性胃肠炎的作用机制

【目的】借助网络药理学手段探究乌梅散加减方治疗猪传染性胃肠炎(TGE)的作用机制。【方法】利用中药系统药理学数据库与分析平台(TCMSP)、Swiss TargetPrediction获取乌梅散加减方的活性成分与作用靶点,应用公共比较毒理基因组学数据库(CTD)获取TGE的相关靶点,使用STRING数据库绘制乌梅散加减方与TGE交集靶点的蛋白互作(PPI)网络图,利用DAVID对交集靶点进行GO功能和KEGG通路富集分析,探究乌梅散加减方治疗TGE的作用机制。【结果】从乌梅散加减方中共筛选到槲皮素、山柰酚、芒柄花素等125种活性成分和JUN原癌基因(JUN)、肿瘤坏死因子(TNF)、信号传导与转录激活因子3(STAT3)等58个作用靶点。GO功能富集分析显示,共得到生物过程138个条目,涉及免疫反应、血管内皮因子生成、RNA聚合酶Ⅱ启动子对pri-miRNA转录的正调控等;细胞组分13个条目,涉及胞外区、细胞外空间、膜筏等;分子功能32个条目,涉及细胞因子活性、生长因子活性、白细胞介素2(IL2)受体活性等。KEGG通路富集分析显示,共得到135条信号通路,其中IL17信号通路、Th1...     

Risk assessment and surveillance for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Argentina

An assessment was made of the risks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) occurring in Argentina. Most of the factors associated with the origin and development of the BSE epidemic in the UK are essentially absent. For example, Argentina's large sheep and cattle industries are based on low-cost production systems using grass. Concentrated feeds are not used for sheep, rarely for beef cattle and to a comparatively modest extent for dairy cows. Particularly important are the facts that scrapie (and BSE) has never been reported in Argentina—very small amounts of waste tissues from sheep are rendered to produce meat and bone meal (MBM)—and MBM is not used in concentrated feeds for cattle. We conclude that Argentina has an exceptionally low risk of BSE due to scrapie. There is a very small risk of BSE having been introduced via live animals imported from countries with BSE, but this could only give rise to isolated cases because MBM is not fed to cattle.

A surveillance programme has been carried out based largely on a histological examination of brains from three categories of old dairy cows: animals reported on the suspicion of having neurological disease; animals in poor condition at slaughter; healthy animals randomly selected in the abattoir. No evidence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy was seen in several sections from each of a total of 1019 brains. We conclude that, for most practical purposes, Argentina may be considered to be free from BSE.     

猪传染性胃肠炎病毒TaqMan荧光定量RT-PCR检测方法的建立

根据猪传染性胃肠炎病毒和猪肌动蛋白的基因序列设计合成了引物和探针,通过对荧光定量RT-PCR反应条件的优化,建立了TaqMan荧光定量RT-PCR检测TGEV的方法。同时对37份现地病料进行检测并与常规RT-PCR方法、TGEV抗原快速检测试剂盒比较。结果,该方法的检测敏感性达到15.3拷贝/μL,且具有很好的特异性和重复性,而常规RT-PCR方法只能检测到1.53×103拷贝/μL。对37份现地病料的检测结果也表明该法(检出17份)比常规RT-PCR方法(检出12份)和TGEV抗原快速检测试剂盒(免疫层析法,检出10份)的敏感性高。     

Clinico-pathological studies on the effect of different anti-neoplastic chemotherapy regimens on transmissible venereal tumours in dogs

Thirty-two dogs affected with transmissible veneral tumour (TVT) were divided into three treatment groups. In group I vincristine sulphate at 0.025 mg/kg body weight, in group II vinblastine sulphate at 0.150 mg/kg body weight, and in group III vinblastine sulphate at 0.100 mg/kg body weight plus methotrexate at 0.35 mg/kg body weight were given intravenously at weekly intervals. Biopsies were performed on days 0, 3, 7 and 14. The tissues were preserved in 10% neutral buffered formalin and processed routinely for haematoxylin and eosin staining. Histopathologically, the untreated TVT was characterized by sheets or bundles of mostly rounded cells having a large, highly basophilic nucleus with a prominent, highly basophilic nucleolus. Both vincristine and vinblastine primarily affected the nuclei of neoplastic cells, causing condensation, karyorrhexis and karyolysis within 3 days of chemotherapy. The regressing tumour mass showed marked infiltration by lymphocytes, lymphoblasts and macrophages by day 7. There was nearly complete regression of the tumour by day 14, as shown by the almost complete loss of neoplastic cells, with fibrous tissue substitution. However, in group III, the changes occurred more slowly and more injections were needed for complete regression. In both groups I and II, 11/12 of the animals responded completely to the chemotherapy within 3 weeks, while in group III, 6/8 of the dogs responded to the treatment by 21–28 days.Abbreviations SD standard deviation - TVT transmissible venereal tumour