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. 2012 Jul;43(3):1022-5.
doi: 10.1590/S1517-838220120003000025. Epub 2012 Jun 1.

Detection of Genetic characterization of Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) in Brazilian wildlife boars

A M M G Castro  1 , F G Castro Jr, F E L Budiño, C M Baldin, S O S Silva, P E Brandão, L J Richtzenhain
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Detection of Genetic characterization of Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) in Brazilian wildlife boars

A M M G Castro et al. Braz J Microbiol. 2012 Jul.

Abstract

A semi-intensive wildlife boars farm presented a clinical history of high mortality in 70 - 90 days-old pigs (> 50 %). Two 90 days-old animals with weight loss and wasting were necropsied and the samples tested for PCV2 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The genetic material of PCV2 was sequenced and classified into the PCV2a genotype together with PCV2 sequences obtained from samples of Poland, Brazil, Slovenia and Greece wild boars.

Keywords: Porcine circovirus-2; phylogenetic analyses; wildlife boars pigs.

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Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree of the complete genome of PCV2 sequences from various countries. A rooted phylogenetic treewas constructed by the neighbor-joining (NJ) method from aligned sequences constructed by: one PCV1 sequence as out-group; 51 PCV2sequences from the GenBank; and the two sequences from the present study (BRA_JAV1_2008; BRA_JAV2_2008). The bootstrap value(1000 replicates) for each clade is shown.
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