The evidence of porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus induced nonsuppurative encephalitis as the cause of death in piglets.
An acute outbreak of porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV) infection in piglets, characterized with neurological symptoms, vomiting, diarrhea, and wasting, occurred in China. Coronavirus-like particles were observed in the homogenized tissue suspensions of the brain of dead piglets by electron microscopy, and a wild PHEV strain was isolated, characterized, and designated as PHEV-CC14. Histopathologic examinations of the dead piglets showed characteristics of non-suppurative encephalitis, and some neurons in the cerebral cortex were degenerated and necrotic, and neuronophagia. Similarly, mice inoculated with PHEV-CC14 were found to have central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction, with symptoms of depression, arched waists, standing and vellicating front claws. Furthmore, PHEV-positive labeling of neurons in cortices of dead piglets and infected mice supported the viral infections of the nervous system. Then, the major structural genes of PHEV-CC14 were sequenced and phylogenetically analyzed, and the strain shared 95%-99.2% nt identity with the other PHEV strains available in GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis clearly proved that the wild strain clustered into a subclass with a HEV-JT06 strain. These findings suggested that the virus had a strong tropism for CNS, in this way, inducing nonsuppurative encephalitis as the cause of death in piglets. Simultaneously, the predicted risk of widespread transmission showed a certain variation among the PHEV strains currently circulating around the world. Above all, the information presented in this study can not only provide good reference for the experimental diagnosis of PHEV infection for pig breeding, but also promote its new effective vaccine development.
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Zi
Z
Li
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Wenqi
W
He
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Yungang
Y
Lan
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Kui
K
Zhao
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Xiaoling
X
Lv
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Huijun
H
Lu
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Ning
N
Ding
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Jing
J
Zhang
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Junchao
J
Shi
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Changjian
C
Shan
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Jilin, China.
Feng
F
Gao
Coronavirus; Neurological symptoms; Nonsuppurative encephalitis; Phylogenetic analysis; Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus; Viral isolation; Vomiting
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