title: Molecular detection of porcine kobuviruses in Italian swine.
abstract: In this study, fecal specimens (n=260) collected from Italian healthy pigs aged between 6 and 10 months were screened by RT-PCR using generic kobuvirus primers. Porcine kobuviruses (PKVs) were detected in 3.85% of the samples tested. Based on the analysis of the partial 3D gene, the Italian sequences identified here were more closely related to PKVs previously identified in Japan, Thailand, Korea, China and Brazil than to the European PKVs recently detected in Hungary and in the Netherlands.
authors.affiliation: Department of Scienze Biomediche Comparate, University of Teramo, Piazza Aldo Moro 45, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Di Profio
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ceci
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Di Felice
authors.forename: Fulvio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marsilio
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Di Martino
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D052699:Kobuvirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010850:Picornaviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*
keywords: Adult asymptomatic animals; Kobuviruses; Pigs