Emergence and prevalence of naturally occurring lower virulent African swine fever viruses in domestic pigs in China in 2020  

作　　者：Encheng Sun Zhenjiang Zhang Zilong Wang Xijun He Xianfeng Zhang Lulu Wang Wenqing Wang Lianyu Huang Fei Xi Haoyue Huangfu Ghebremedhin Tsegay Hong Huo Jianhong Sun Zhijun Tian Wei Xia Xuewu Yu Fang Li Renqiang Liu Yuntao Guan Dongming Zhao Zhigao Bu 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology,National High Containment Facilities for Animal Diseases Control and Prevention,Harbin Veterinary Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Harbin 150069,China [2]College of Animal Science and Technology,Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities,Tongliao 028000,China

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2021年第5期752-765,共14页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC1200601);Applied Technology Research and Development Project of Heilongjiang Province(GA19B301);Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B020211004);the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology Program(SKLVBP201801);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31941002)。

摘　　要：African swine fever virus(ASFV)has been circulating in China for more than two years,and it is not clear whether the biological properties of the virus have changed.Here,we report on our surveillance of ASFVs in seven provinces of China,from June to December,2020.A total of 22 viruses were isolated and characterized as genotype II ASFVs,with mutations,deletions,insertions,or short-fragment replacement occurring in all isolates compared with Pig/HLJ/2018(HLJ/18),the earliest isolate in China.Eleven isolates had four different types of natural mutations or deletion in the EP402R gene and displayed a nonhemadsorbing(non-HAD)phenotype.Four isolates were tested for virulence in pigs;two were found to be as highly lethal as HLJ/18.However,two non-HAD isolates showed lower virulence but were highly transmissible;infection with 106 TCID50 dose was partially lethal and caused acute or sub-acute disease,whereas 103 TCID50 dose caused non-lethal,sub-acute or chronic disease,and persistent infection.The emergence of lower virulent natural mutants brings greater difficulty to the early diagnosis of ASF and creates new challenges for ASFV control.

关 键 词：African swine fever virus natural mutant non-hemadsorbing lower virulent 

分 类 号：S858.28[农业科学—临床兽医学]