Panpan Tong, Zunbao Wang, Yueyi Dang, Lei Zhang, Guangwei Song, Xiaozhen Song, Juanjuan Pan, Ling Kuang, Junhui Li, Gang Lu, Jinxin Xie
Kirkovirus (kirV), a seemingly novel virus family, has been found in horses and donkeys. The study's objectives are to investigate the presence of the virus in swine. In this study, donkey-like kirV was detected in rectal swabs of piglets with diarrhea, and the positive rate was found to be 100% (149/149). However, this virus was detected in only one of 261 clinically healthy piglets, which suggested a strong relationship between the kirV and the diarrheic disease. We obtained the whole-genome sequences of three kirVs (Cj-D5, Cj-D32, and Cj-D43), with a length of 3750 nucleotides (nt) and sharing 99...
March 25, 2024: Virus Genes