Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus among Farmed Pigs, Ukraine
- Akbar Dastjerdi
- John Carr
- Richard J. Ellis
- Falko Steinbach
- Susanna Williamson
Publication date
December 2015
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
An outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea occurred in the summer of 2014 in Ukraine, severely affecting piglets <10 days of age; the mortality rate approached 100%. Full genome sequencing showed the virus to be closely related to strains reported from North America, showing a sequence identity of up to 99.8%
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