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Iowa State University
Unknown virus may give piglets polio-like symptoms
Posted by Fred Love-Iowa State October 19th, 2016
A new virus found in the central nervous tissues of young pigs could be causing polio-like weakness in their hind legs.
Paulo Arruda, an assistant professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, led a team of diagnosticians from Iowa State, the University of Minnesota, and Kansas State University in an effort to investigate samples from 11-week-old pigs that couldn?t walk due to a mysterious weakness in their hind legs.
The diagnostic team found microscopic lesions in the pigs? central nervous tissues containing a novel sapelovirus that researchers hadn?t previously encountered. Sapeloviruses belong to a family of viruses commonly found in pigs, but this particular strain was different from all other sapeloviruses previously described, Arruda says.
?We?re collecting evidence, sort of like in a forensic investigation,? he says. ?But we still have a lot of questions that need to be answered about this virus.?
?We still have a lot of questions that need to be answered about this virus.?...
Iowa State University
Unknown virus may give piglets polio-like symptoms
Posted by Fred Love-Iowa State October 19th, 2016
A new virus found in the central nervous tissues of young pigs could be causing polio-like weakness in their hind legs.
Paulo Arruda, an assistant professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, led a team of diagnosticians from Iowa State, the University of Minnesota, and Kansas State University in an effort to investigate samples from 11-week-old pigs that couldn?t walk due to a mysterious weakness in their hind legs.
The diagnostic team found microscopic lesions in the pigs? central nervous tissues containing a novel sapelovirus that researchers hadn?t previously encountered. Sapeloviruses belong to a family of viruses commonly found in pigs, but this particular strain was different from all other sapeloviruses previously described, Arruda says.
?We?re collecting evidence, sort of like in a forensic investigation,? he says. ?But we still have a lot of questions that need to be answered about this virus.?
?We still have a lot of questions that need to be answered about this virus.?...