›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (11): 3229-3236.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2018.11.030

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Isolation, Identification and Pathogenicity Evaluation of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus SD201604 Strain

WU Bai, SU Weiwei, JU Decai, XIA Mingqi, ZHANG Shucheng, WANG Wei   

  1. Sinovet(Jiangsu) Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Taizhou 225300, China
  • Received:2018-04-24 Online:2018-11-20 Published:2018-11-20

Abstract:

In order to obtain porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) isolate and study its pathogenicity,virus isolation was conducted in Vero cells through inoculating diarrhea sample collected from a pig farm in Shandong province.The strain was identified by cytopathogenic effect (CPE),IFA,electron microscope observation and RT-PCR methods,and the S gene sequence of virus was analyzed.The 3-day-old piglets were inoculated orally with 103.5 TCID50/mL virus and observed for clinical symptoms and pathological changes.The 3-day-old piglets were inoculated orally with 3 mL different titers of virus.The mortality of piglets in each group was calculated to determine the minimum lethal dose.The results indicated that a strain of PEDV was successfully isolated in the cell culture and designated PEDV SD201604.The strain replicated well in Vero cells and could cause obvious CPE.The infectious titer of the 6th passage of PEDV SD201604 was 103.5 TCID50/mL.The strain was detected to be PEDV positive by IFA and RT-PCR methods.Electron microscope observation showed that the size of the virus particle was about 100 nm in diameter,with an obvious envelope and spikes,which was the typical morphological feature of PEDV.Then the virus was identified as a prevalent PEDV variant of China through the analysis of S gene sequence.In the animal pathogenicity experiment,five 3-day-old piglets inoculated orally with 103.5 TCID50/mL of PEDV SD201604 strain all showed typical PEDV clinical symptoms and pathological lesions,and 3 of them died in the test.The minimum lethal dose (MLD) experiment showed that piglets all died when they were orally inoculated with 3 mL of virus with a virus content of 104.5 TCID50/mL.Together,the experimental results provided references for PEDV isolation,identification and biological characteristics research.

Key words: porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV); isolation; identification; pathogenicity

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