Porcine enteric caliciviruses: genetic and antigenic relatedness to human caliciviruses, diagnosis and epidemiology.
Porcine enteric caliciviruses include sapoviruses and noroviruses. Porcine sapoviruses infect pigs of all ages and cause diarrhea in young pigs, whereas porcine noroviruses were detected exclusively from adult pigs without clinical signs. Importantly, certain porcine norovirus strains were genetically and antigenically related to human noroviruses. This raises public health concerns that pigs may be reservoirs for emergence of epidemic human norovirus strains. This article reviews the discovery of porcine noroviruses and sapoviruses, their classification, diagnosis, epidemiology and genetic and antigenic relatedness to human caliciviruses.
Wang
Qiu-Hong
QH
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States.
Costantini
Veronica
V
Saif
Linda J
LJ
D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D002139:Caliciviridae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology*; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004751:Enteritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D010802:Phylogeny; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*
D000914:Antibodies, Viral