China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2024, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (1): 373-381.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2024.01.038

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Molecular Epidemiology of Duck Circovirus in Guangxi During 2019 to 2022

XIONG Chenyong1,3, ZENG Suxian2, LIU Huixin1, ZHAO Kang1,3, SHI Kaichuang4, SHI Yuwen1, XIE Shouyu4, WEI Xiankai4, LONG Feng4, FENG Shuping4, QU Sujie4, WANG Luxia1,5, LIN Changhua1,3, YIN Yanwen4   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China;
    2. Shajing Subdistrict Office Jiangnan District, Nanning City Aquatic Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station, Nanning 530031, China;
    3. Guangxi State Farms Yongxin Animal Husbandry Group Xijiang Co., Ltd., Guigang 537104, China;
    4. Guangxi Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning 530001, China;
    5. Baise Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Baise 533000, China
  • Received:2023-08-21 Online:2024-01-05 Published:2023-12-27

Abstract: 【Objective】 The aim of this experiment was to understand the genetic and evolutionary characteristics of Duck circovirus (DuCV) in Guangxi.【Method】 A total of 761 clinical samples of ducks were collected from Guangxi during 2019-2022 to detect DuCV infection by Real-time quantitative PCR.The whole genome sequence of DuCV was amplified by PCR, the similarity of nucleotide and amino acid sequences between DuCV and reference strain were analyzed by DNAStar, the DUCV recombination event was analyzed by RDP4 and SimPlot 3.5.1 software, and the genetic evolution tree was constructed by Mega 7.0 software.The amino acid variation sites of DuCV Cap protein were analyzed by BioEdit software.【Result】 The positive rate of DuCV was 22.5%, and the genome size was between 1 988-1 996 bp.The nucleotide sequence similarity of the whole genome, Rep and Cap genes between the Guangxi DuCV strain and the reference strain was 71.9%-99.6%, 83.1%-99.9% and 52.8%-99.9%, respectively.Gene recombination analysis showed that there were recombination events in DuCV-GX13-2019 and DuCV-GX14-2020.A total of 78 amino acid sites in Cap protein were mutated.Compared with DuCV-1, DuCV-2 was completely mutated at amino acids 3, 12, 15, 23, 31, 42, 56 and 64.The strains in Guangxi were DuCV-1 and DuCV-2 genotypes, DuCV-1 was the main dominant strain, and DuCV-1b subtype was the most widely prevalent.【Conclusion】 The incidence of DuCV infection in Guangxi was serious, some strains had recombination events, the mutation rate of Cap protein was high, and various subtypes of DuCV were prevalent, which provided basic data for the epidemiological investigation of DuCV in Guangxi.

Key words: Duck circovirus (DuCV); genetic evolution; similarity; epidemiology

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