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Re-emergence of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in a piglet-producing farm in Jiangxi province in China in 2020
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  • Qi Gao,
  • Zheng Zezhong,
  • Heng Wang,
  • Guihong Zhang,
  • Lang Gong
Qi Gao
South China Agricultural University
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Zheng Zezhong
South China Agricultural University, College of Veterinary Medicine South China Agricultural University No.483 Wushan Street, Tianhe District Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Heng Wang
South China Agricultural University
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Guihong Zhang
South China Agricultural University
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Lang Gong
South China Agriculture University(SCAU)

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Abstract

On October 30, 2020, piglets and sows in the farrowing house of a pig farm in Jiangxi showed clinical symptoms such as anorexia, watery diarrhea, and vomiting. Epidemiological test, clinical necropsy, and RT-PCR test were carried out on the pig farm for diagnosis. After comprehensive considerations, the disease was judged as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infection. Thereafter, a series of comprehensive prevention and control measures such as emergency vaccination with autogenous vaccines were adopted. Half a month after inoculation with autogenous vaccines for the farm, the mortality rate of newborn piglets in the farrowing house began to decline, and production gradually returned to being stable. The second-generation sequencing analysis and phylogenetic analysis showed that the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) sequence obtained from the stool and small intestine samples of the diseased pigs on the farm was 97.8% homologous to the vaccine strain. At the same time, antibody testing found that the vaccinated pigs on the pig farm had satisfactory immune response, indicating that the PEDV outbreak on the pig farm might aggravate owing to the strain being mutated and could escape the immune protection of the existing vaccine. This case has accumulated technical data for the clinical prevention and control of porcine epidemic diarrhea.