Authors: Axel Mauroy Alexandra Scipioni Elisabeth Mathijs Cora Miry Dominique Ziant Christine Thys Etienne Thiry
Publish Date: 2008/09/08
Volume: 153, Issue: 10, Pages: 1927-1931
Abstract
Porcine noroviruses and sapoviruses belong to the family Caliciviridae and are rarely reported in European countries In this study swine stools from a region representative of northern Europe were screened for these viruses by RTPCR Both porcine noroviruses and sapoviruses were detected showing their circulation in this region The porcine norovirus strains were genetically related to genotype 19 strains in the genogroup II of the genus Norovirus The porcine sapovirus strains were genetically related to the porcine enteric calicivirus Cowden reference strain and to newly described porcine strains in the genus SapovirusThis study was funded by SPF Santé Publique Sécurité de la Chaîne alimentaire et Environnment convention RF6185 the Région Wallonne convention 415701 and on the Belgian policy’s behalf for the execution of the “Science for Sustainable Development” program convention SD/AF/01 The authors deeply acknowledge Dr Alan Radford University of Liverpool for his careful reading of the manuscript
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