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      Development and validation of an ELISA using a protein encoded by ORF2 antigenic domain of porcine circovirus type 2

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          Abstract

          Background

          The capsid protein (ORF2) is a major structural protein of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2). A simple and reliable diagnostic method based on ORF2 protein immunoreactivity would serve as a valuable diagnostic method for detecting serum antibodies to PCV2 and monitoring PCV infection. Here, we reported an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (I-ELISA) by using an antigenic domain (113-147AA) of ORF2-encoded antigen, expressed in E. coli, for diagnosis of PCV infection.

          Results

          The ELISA was performed on 288 serum samples collected from different porcine herds and compared with an indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA). In total, 262 of 288 samples were positive as indicated by both I-ELISA and IFA. The specificity and sensitivity of I-ELISA were 87.7% and 93.57%.

          Conclusions

          This ELISA is suitable for detection and discrimination of PCV2 infection in both SPF and farm antisera.

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          Pathogenesis of porcine circovirus; experimental infections of colostrum deprived piglets and examination of pig foetal material.

          The results of virus and antigen distribution following experimental infection of colostrum deprived pigs with pig circovirus (PCV) by oral/nasal and intravenous routes are reported. PCV and antigen were detected using virus isolation and indirect immunofluorescence on cryostat sections respectively. PCV antigen was detected in tissues throughout the body but primarily in spleen thymus, and lung. No PCV antigen or virus was detected in tissue samples from the central nervous system. Examination of pig foetal material from field cases of abortion/stillbirth resulted in 3 PCV isolates from 2 sera and a spleen sample from 2 groups of stillborn piglets from the same farm. No antibody to PCV alone was detected in 160 foetal sera tested. These results suggest that transplacental infection with PCV does occur, possibly prior to foetal immunocompetance. However, it is probably not a significant cause of reproductive disorders in pigs in Northern Ireland.
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            Identification of a protein essential for replication of porcine circovirus.

            The largest open reading frame of porcine circovirus (ORF 4) encodes a protein of 312 amino acids. The predicted gene product of ORF 4 shows similarities to Rep proteins of other plant circoviruses and geminiviruses. Three motifs have been identified that are characteristic for proteins involved in rolling circle replication and the consensus sequence for a putative dNTP-binding box (GKS) has been found. In this paper, experimental evidence is presented which indicates that ORF 4 encodes the replication protein of porcine circovirus. After cloning of the ORF 4 gene product, it was supplied in trans in a transient replication assay. The ORF 4 gene product promoted the replication of plasmid pOP11, which carries the origin of DNA replication of porcine circovirus. Since pOP11 itself is unable to replicate in virus-free porcine kidney cells, the ORF 4 gene product must be essential for replication of porcine circovirus.
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              Isolation of porcine circovirus-like viruses from pigs with a wasting disease in the USA and Europe.

              Samples of lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen, and lymph node from pigs with postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome from California (USA) and samples of mesenteric lymph nodes from similarly diseased pigs from Brittany (France) were examined by light microscopy, in situ hybridization (ISH), and/or virus isolation. Whole genomic probes for porcine circovirus (PCV) and chicken anemia virus (CAV) were used for ISH. Tissue homogenate supernatants were inoculated onto PK/15 cells for virus isolation, and the presence of viral antigen and viral particles was verified by indirect immunofluorescence, ISH, and electron microscopy. Histologic examination of lung from pigs from California revealed interstitial pneumonia, alveolar epithelial hyperplasia, and basophilic nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions in mononuclear cell infiltrates and various pulmonary epithelial cells. Granulomatous lymphadenitis with syncytial cells typified the lesions seen in the pigs from France. PCV-like nucleic acid was detected by ISH in lung, pancreas, lymph node, kidney, and liver in pigs from California. Positive signal was also obtained in lymph node sections from pigs from France. Probes for CAV were consistently negative. PK/15 cell cultures inoculated with lung preparations from diseased California pigs and mesenteric lymph node preparations from pigs from France had positive fluorescence by indirect staining for PCV using pooled polyclonal pig sera and hyperimmune rabbit serum and had variable staining with a panel of 7 monoclonal antibodies specific for cell culture contaminant PCV. PCV-like nucleic acid was also detected by ISH in cell cultures. Cytopathic effect was not observed. Electron microscopic examination of inoculated cell cultures revealed 17-nm viral particles morphologically consistent with PCV. No other virus particles were observed. Although genomic analysis for the definitive identification of these viral isolates remains to be done, the evidence provided strongly suggests that these tissue isolates are closely related to, although antigenically distinct from, the original PCV cell culture contaminant.
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                Journal
                Virol J
                Virology Journal
                BioMed Central
                1743-422X
                2010
                19 October 2010
                : 7
                : 274
                Affiliations
                [1 ]State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xujiaping 1, Lanzhou, 730046, The People's Republic of China
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                1743-422X-7-274
                10.1186/1743-422X-7-274
                2976745
                20958981
                dc62a045-8d4a-44a7-93f0-9e6b87992a72
                Copyright ©2010 Sun et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 22 July 2010
                : 19 October 2010
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                Microbiology & Virology
                Microbiology & Virology

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