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INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 223-227Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.05.024
Keywords
Porcine rotavirus C; VP6; Genetic classification; Multiple genotypes
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- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan
- National Institute of Animal Health, NARO
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Porcine rotavirus C (RVC) has been often detected in sporadic cases or outbreaks of diarrhea in suckling and weaned pigs. Previous surveillance studies using both enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction in some countries including Japan and the United States have demonstrated a high prevalence of porcine RVCs. In order to understand the phylogenetic relatedness of RVCs, we performed genetic analysis of VP6 gene encoding inner capsid protein by using 22 porcine RVC strains collected in Japan from 2002 to 2010. Comparative analyses of the VP6 nucleotide and amino acid sequences from these porcine RVCs exhibited lower sequence identities than those from human and bovine RVCs. The phylogenetic analysis of VP6 gene of RVC indicated the presence of seven clusters (tentatively assigned I1-I7) according to host species with cut-off values of 87% at the nucleotide level, and VP6 genes of porcine RVCs were divided into five genotypes. These findings indicate that multiple porcine RVC strains with distinctive genotypes are broadly spreading and circulating among farms in Japan. Our data may provide important insights in understanding evolutionary dynamics of RVCs. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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