High prevalence of porcine Hokovirus in German wild boar populations

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Porcine Hokovirus (PHoV) was recently discovered in Hong Kong. This new Parvovirus of pigs is closely related to the human Parvoviruses 4 and 5 (PARV4/5) and bovine Hokovirus (BHoV). So far, nothing is known about the presence and prevalence of PHoV in regions of the world other than Hong Kong. A study was initiated to investigate PHoV in German wild boars from five different geographical regions, using a newly established quantitative real-time PCR assay. Analysis of collected liver and serum samples revealed high overall prevalence (32.7%; 51/156) of PHoV in wild boars. The prevalence differed between the regions and increased with age. Two near full-length genomes and a large fragment for three additional isolates from different regions were sequenced and used for phylogenetic analysis. The German PHoV sequences from wild boars showed a close relationship with sequences of isolates from Hong Kong. © 2010 Adlhoch et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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Adlhoch, C., Kaiser, M., Ellerbrok, H., & Pauli, G. (2010). High prevalence of porcine Hokovirus in German wild boar populations. Virology Journal, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-171

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