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Lyu C, Wang S, Sun M, Tang Y, Peng J, Tian Z, Cai X. Deletion of pseudorabies virus US2 gene enhances viral titers in a porcine cerebral cortex primary culture system. Virus Genes 2018. [PMID: 29541931 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-018-1552-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Pseudorabies virus (PRV) is a neurotropic virus with the ability to infect peripheral sensory ganglia. The transport of PRV from the peripheral to the central nervous system can cause lethal encephalitis in young piglets. However, the pathogenicity of PRV in the cerebral cortex remains poorly understood. In the present study, we developed a porcine cerebral cortex primary culture system (PCCS) using cerebral cortex tissue dissected from a 3-day-old piglet to investigate the pathogenicity of wild-type (WT) and US2 deleted (ΔUS2) PRV in the CNS in vitro. Immunofluorescence assays revealed cell bodies and neurites as the cellular locations infected by PRV. Growth kinetic analysis showed a persistent increase in WT and ΔUS2 viral titers in PCCS from 4 to 24 h post infection (hpi), thus indicating that US2 deletion did not disrupt viral growth. However, the mean plaque size was significantly higher in ΔUS2 PRV than in WT PRV in infected Vero cells. The viral titers and DNA levels of ΔUS2 PRV were significantly higher at 8 hpi than at 4 hpi, whereas those of WT showed no significant difference between the two time points in PCCS. Morphological investigation revealed induction of massive amounts of bouton-like swellings (varicosities) along the axon shaft in both WT and ΔUS2 PRV-infected neurons in the PCCS. Our data suggest that PRV US2 gene deletion enhances viral titers in PCCS but does not affect the varicosities induced by the viral infection.
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- Chuang Lyu
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haping Road No. 678, Xiang Fang District, Harbin, 150069, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Casal J, Planasdemunt L, Varo JA, Martín M. The Use of Different Vaccination Schedules for Sows to Protect Piglets against Aujeszky's Disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 51:8-11. [PMID: 14995971 DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0450.2003.00721.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Several Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) vaccination protocols of sows were evaluated with regard to the passive protection conferred on piglets in a recently built commercial farm. Three different groups of sows were vaccinated using a Bartha K-61 strain. One group received an inactivated vaccine during pregnancy and the other two groups received attenuated vaccines, either during pregnancy (day 65) or on the seventh day of lactation. At farrowing, sows vaccinated during lactation had lower seroneutralization titres than those vaccinated during pregnancy either with inactivated or attenuated vaccines. Accordingly, their piglets were the ones with lower levels of maternally transferred neutralizing antibodies. At 4 weeks of age, five piglets born of each group of sows were challenged intranasally with a neurotropic strain of ADV. Piglets born of sows vaccinated during pregnancy with inactivated and attenuated vaccines gained 1.50 kg bodyweight and 2.50 kg bodyweight during 7 days, respectively, and did not show clinical signs, while piglets from sows vaccinated during the previous lactation lost 0.60 kg and presented moderate to severe clinical signs of ADV. Vaccination of sows during pregnancy provided more protection against ADV for piglets than sow vaccination before mating. Piglets born from sows vaccinated with attenuated or inactivated vaccines did not present remarkable differences on protection.
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- J Casal
- CreSA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, Dep. Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Balasch M, Pujols J, Segalés J, Plana-Durán J, Pumarola M. Study of the persistence of Aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies) virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and tissues of experimentally infected pigs. Vet Microbiol 1998; 62:171-83. [PMID: 9791865 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1135(98)00208-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The presence of Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and tissues of experimentally infected pigs was studied. Vaccinated and unvaccinated pigs were inoculated with different doses of Aujeszky's disease NIA-3 strain. Pigs were periodically bled and PBMC were used for virus isolation and PCR detection of virus. Tissues were obtained at the time of death (8 weeks post-inoculation) and used for ADV genome detection by PCR. ADV genome was amplified from PBMC during the acute phase of infection and, in some experimental groups, up to 38 days post-inoculation (PI). The virus was sporadically detected by virus isolation performed from PBMC. In neural tissues, ADV was constantly amplified from the trigeminal ganglia and the olfactory bulb of persistently infected pigs (euthanized 8 weeks PI). In other tissues, the viral genome was rarely detected in lymph nodes and tonsils, and occasionally, in the bone marrow. Our results indicated that PBMC are not an appropriate source for detecting ADV persistence, since inconsistent results were obtained throughout the experiments. In neural tissues, the olfactory bulb turned out to be as important a target for ADV persistence as the trigeminal ganglia. Viral genome detection in the bone marrow indicated that this tissue may play a role in the establishment of a persistent infection.
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- M Balasch
- Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
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Grieco V, Gelmetti D, Finazzi G, Brocchi E, Finazzi M. Immunohistologic diagnosis of pseudorabies (Aujeszky's disease) using monoclonal antibodies. J Vet Diagn Invest 1997; 9:326-8. [PMID: 9249178 DOI: 10.1177/104063879700900320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- V Grieco
- Istituto di Anatomia Patologica Veterinaria e Patologia Aviare, Facoltà di Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Segalés J, Balasch M, Domingo M, Carvalho LF, Pijoan C. Immunohistochemical demonstration of the spread of pneumotropic strain 4892 of Aujeszky's disease virus in conventional pigs. J Comp Pathol 1997; 116:387-95. [PMID: 9179751 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9975(97)80055-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Sixteen pigs aged 5 to 7 weeks were inoculated intranasally with the pneumotropic strain 4892 of Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) in a dose of 2 x 10(5) TCID50. Pigs died or were killed on day 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 20 or 30 post-inoculation (PI). Two further pigs were kept as negative (uninfected) controls. Histopathological examination demonstrated meningoencephalitis, necrotizing rhinitis and multifocal systemic necrosis. Viral antigen was detected immunohistochemically, mainly in the central nervous system up to day 12 PI, and to a lesser degree in the lung, nasal mucosa and tonsil. ADV DNA was detected at days 20 and 30 PI by a nested polymerase chain reaction technique. This study indicated that the spread of the highly virulent, pneumotropic strain 4892 did not differ from that of other neurotropic or pneumotropic ADV strains.
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- J Segalés
- Departament de Patologia i Producció Animals, U.D. Anatomia Patològica, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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Quiroga MI, Vázquez S, López-Peña M, Guerrero F, Nieto JM. Experimental Aujeszky's disease in blue foxes (Alopex lagopus). ZENTRALBLATT FUR VETERINARMEDIZIN. REIHE A 1995; 42:649-57. [PMID: 8822189 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0442.1995.tb00419.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Blue foxes were inoculated orally with Aujeszky's disease virus. Several foxes were killed at the onset of clinical signs and other animals spontaneously died. The incubation period ranged from 3 to 6 days and was followed by a short illness characterized by anorexia, depression and coma. At autopsy, no specific gross findings were observed. Microscopically, lesions included a non-suppurative meningoencephalitis with neuronal necrosis, gliosis, neuronophagia and mononuclear cell cuffing. Viral antigen was detected by immunoperoxidase technique.
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- M I Quiroga
- Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Lugo, Spain
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Conventional 24-well microtiter plates and shell vials were seeded with pig kidney (PK-15) and bovine turbinate (BT) cells. The monolayers were inoculated with 244 clinical specimens from pigs suspected of having pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection. The results of a shell vial assay (SVA) were compared with those obtained in a 24-well plate cell culture assay in terms of sensitivity and speed of virus isolation. All samples were passaged only once in cell cultures in both assays. Samples producing cytopathic effects (cpe) in 1 or both assay systems and showing positive fluorescence in a direct fluorescent antibody assay were considered to be positive for PRV. Of the 244 samples examined, 118 (48.4%) and 121 (49.2%) were positive by the 24-well plate assay and SVA, respectively. Of the 118 samples positive in 24-well plates, 113 (95.8%) were positive in BT cells and 117 (99.2%) were positive in PK-15 cells. The SVA detected 121 positive samples of which 121 (100%) were positive in PK-15 cells and 113 (93.4%) were positive in BT cells. Virus-specific cpe appeared earlier in the SVA than in the 24-well assay. At 24 hours postinoculation, 91 (75.2%) samples were cpe positive by SVA, whereas only 15 (12.7%) were positive in 24-well plates. All but 2 of the 121 (98.3%) SVA-positive samples were positive within 48 hours postinoculation, whereas only 56 of 118 (47.5%) were positive in 24-well plates during the same time period. These results indicate that the SVA is comparable in sensitivity to 24-well plate assay but yields virus isolation results more quickly. Also, PK-15 cells appeared to be more sensitive than BT cells for PRV isolation.
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- R A Tahir
- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA
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Narita M, Kawashima K, Haritani M, Imada T. Immunohistological study of encephalomalacia in pigs infected with Aujeszky's disease virus. J Comp Pathol 1993; 108:361-8. [PMID: 8396159 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9975(08)80207-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Seven hysterectomy-derived colostrum-deprived pigs aged 4 weeks were inoculated intranasally with 10(3) plaque-forming units (1 ml) of the Yamagata YS-81 strain of Aujeszky's disease virus. One pig died and five developed encephalomyelitis and trigeminal ganglionitis. Three pigs killed on days 12-16 showed prominent malacic degeneration. Associated with the malacic foci were many lysosome-positive cells. IgG- and IgM-containing cells in the perivascular cuffs and glial nodules were first detected on day 7, after which they increased in number. They were thought to be closely associated with the presence of neutralizing antibody. These findings suggest that inflammatory cells in the brain are of haematogenous origin.
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- M Narita
- National Institute of Animal Health, Ibaraki, Japan
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Narita M, Nanba K, Haritani M, Kawashima K. Immunopathology in Aujeszky's disease virus-infected pigs exposed to fluctuating temperatures. J Comp Pathol 1992; 107:221-9. [PMID: 1452815 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9975(92)90038-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Pigs exposed to fluctuating temperatures (high, 30 +/- 2 degrees C; low, 4 +/- 1 degrees C) were intranasally inoculated with Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV). ADV-infected pigs, exposed to the fluctuating temperatures, showed severe clinical signs and ADV in the nasal secretions persisted longer than in the ADV-infected control pigs kept at the normal temperature (20 +/- 2 degrees C). High concentrations of ADV were isolated from nasal secretions on the 1st day after inoculation of the virus. Pathologically, all ADV-infected pigs had non-suppurative encephalitis and trigeminal ganglionitis. The lesions were more widely distributed in pigs exposed to fluctuating temperatures than in infected control pigs. Two infected pigs given the stress had severe malacic foci in the frontal lobe and four of them had prominent interstitial pneumonia. In the pigs exposed to fluctuating temperatures, a significant number of immunoglobulin-containing cells, especially IgM-containing cells, did not respond to ADV infection. A significant (P < 0.01) difference in the number of IgG- and IgM-containing cells was observed between the ADV-infected pigs exposed to the fluctuating temperature and ADV-infected control pigs, respectively. These results demonstrated that the stress of fluctuating temperatures enhanced the susceptibility to ADV infection.
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- M Narita
- National Institute of Animal Health, Ibaraki, Japan
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Narita M, Umiji S, Furuta K, Shirai J, Nakamura K. Pathogenicity of avian nephritis virus in chicks previously infected with infectious bursal disease virus. Avian Pathol 1991; 20:101-11. [DOI: 10.1080/03079459108418745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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