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Detection and characterization of porcine caliciviruses in Italy

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Porcine noroviruses and sapoviruses have been sporadically reported in European countries, and more rarely in Italy. In this study, stools samples were collected from both asymptomatic and diarrheic pigs from northern Italy and were screened for caliciviruses by RT-PCR. Sapoviruses were detected frequently and were genetically related to both the GIII reference strain and the newly described porcine sapovirus genogroups. Porcine norovirus was detected in one asymptomatic pig (0.5 %) and was genotyped as GII.11. This is the first detection of porcine norovirus in Italy.

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This study was supported by the grants “Creazione di una rete di laboratori virologici di riferimento (Noronet-Italia) per il controllo delle epidemie di gastroenterite da Norovirus in Italia” (CCM, Ministry of Health, Italy, 2009) and by the grant Italia-USA “Investigating the evolution of zoonotic norovirus and rotavirus strains from swine”.

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    Ilaria Di Bartolo, Silvia Tofani, Giorgia Angeloni, Eleonora Ponterio & Franco Maria Ruggeri

  2. Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia, BO, Italy

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Di Bartolo, I., Tofani, S., Angeloni, G. et al. Detection and characterization of porcine caliciviruses in Italy. Arch Virol 159, 2479–2484 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-014-2076-5

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