China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (2): 660-668.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2022.02.028

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Isolation, Identification and Pathogenicity Analysis of Porcine Rotavirus Group A Strain SCJY-13

CHEN Xiaofei1, ZHANG Bin2, ZHANG Chunhong3, ZHANG Jianfeng3, LIAO Ming1,3,4   

  1. 1. National and Regional Joint Engineering Laboratory for Medicament for Zoonoses Prevention and Control, Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Diseases of Guangdong Province, Key Laboratory of Zoonoses Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;
    2. College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China;
    3. Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    4. Maoming Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Maoming 525000, China
  • Received:2021-08-11 Online:2022-02-05 Published:2022-01-27

Abstract: 【Objective】 This study was aimed to isolate and identify porcine Rotavirus group A (RVA) from feces of piglets suffered from diarrhea, and understand the pathogenicity of the isolate strain.【Method】 RVA was isolated and identified from piglet diarrhea feces by MA-104 cells, and orally infected healthy newborn piglets.The clinical symptoms were observed, the detoxification was detected by Real-time quantitative PCR, the pathological changes were observed by HE staining, and the distribution of virus was tested by immunohistochemistry (IHC).【Result】 A strain of G9P[23] RVA, named RVA/Pig-tc/CHN/SCJY-13/2017/G9P[23] (SCJY-13 strain for short), which could cause obvious cytopathy of MA-104 cells, was isolated, and the virus titer was 105.5 TCID50/100 μL.Diarrhea occurred at 11 h post infection and lasted until 165 h post infection.The incidence rate was 100% (7/7), and the mortality rate was 28.57% (2/7).Viral nucleic acid could be detected from piglet anal swabs at 8 h post infection until 192 h post infection, and the peak appeared at 24 h post infection.At the same time, the viral load in each segment of small intestine reached the highest 54 h post infection, and the viral load in ileum was the highest, which was significantly higher than that in duodenum, jejunum and feces (P < 0.05).HE staining and IHC detection showed that SCJY-13 accumulated in villi and crypts of small intestine of infected piglets, especially in ileum.SCJY-13 strain infection caused a large number of lymphocyte infiltration in duodenum, jejunum and ileum villus lamina propria, mucosal epithelial cells and vacuolar degeneration at the tip of intestinal villus, increase of columnar cells, villus breaking and falling off, especially in ileum.【Conclusion】 The SCJY-13 strain could cause 100% morbidity of neonatal piglets and shed virus for a long time, and the virus was mainly distributed in the ileum of small intestine.These results provided a valuable reference for the pathogenicity study of procine RVA.

Key words: porcine; Rotavirus group A (RVA); G9P[23]; isolation and identification; pathogenicity

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