title: Complete genome sequence of a novel field strain of rearranged porcine circovirus type 2 in southern China.
abstract: We report here the complete genomic sequence of a novel porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) strain, which is supposed to be the result of natural genetic recombination between the ORF1 gene of genotype PCV2b-1B and the ORF2 gene of PCV2b-1C. Further analyses revealed that this novel PCV2 strain arose from recombination between PCV2a and PCV2b strains within the ORF2 gene. To our knowledge, this is the first report of both inter- and intragenotype PCV2 gene rearrangement in the field, and it will help in understanding the epidemiology and molecular characteristics of porcine circovirus type 2(PCV2) in southern China.
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Chun-ya
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jie-xiong
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Wan-jun
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ji-dang
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Heng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Guihong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry; D002681:China; D018173:Circoviridae Infections / Q000821:virology; D017925:Circovirus / Q000235:genetics*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D023281:Genomics; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013552:Swine