Etymologia: Varicella Zoster Virus

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The Study
The farm was a 3-site herd with a total of 6,000 sows. At the time of the outbreak, 55% of breeder stock were gilts or fi rst-or second-parity sows. Site 1 comprised 20 gestation barns and 19 farrowing barns, site 2 (nursery) comprised 9 barns, and site 3 comprised growing and fattening barns.
The outbreak began on August 8 and ended on August 23, 2006. Of 19 farrowing barns, 10 (52.6%) were affected. Total proportion of deaths in pigs that had not been weaned was 16.9% (1,226 dead pigs); an estimated 12.6% of pigs that died had suspected PHE-CoV infection (913 animals).
Clinical signs were observed in pigs >4 days of age and consisted of vomiting, listlessness, pallor, and dehydration. Neurologic signs such as abnormal gait, dullness, inability to eat, tremors, and nystagmus were observed in some animals. Vomiting and wasting occurred in 27.6% of pigs <1 week of age and gradually declined to 1.6% in pigs 3 weeks of age (mean 13.6%). Twenty-nine percent of weaned pigs housed in nursery barns that received affected animals from site 1 showed wasting (Figure 1, panel A), and the proportion of deaths was 15%-40%. In total (sites 1 and 2), 3,683 piglets died or were euthanized.
Postmortem examinations were performed on 16 affected piglets, 2-11 days of age. Samples submitted for histopathologic examination included brainstem, trigeminal ganglia, tonsils, pyloric gland area of the stomach,  jejunum, ileum, lymph nodes, heart, spleen, liver, kidneys, and lung. Selected paraffi n sections of brainstem from 5 piglets that had characteristic microscopic lesions were examined for PHE-CoV antigen by IHC tests with an anti PHE-CoV-67N strain mouse antibody; the samples were diluted 1:1,000 and incubated overnight at 4°C. Samples were then labeled with biotinylated conjugated anti-mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG) goat antiserum at room temperature for 2 h. The color reaction was detected by alkaline phosphatase and 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indoyl phosphate by using nitroblue-tetrazolium and true red as cromogens.
RNA was isolated with a commercial kit (RNeasy, QIAGEN GmbH, Hilden, Germany), from brain samples of 7 symptomatic piglets (6-11 days of age) that had nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis, from 1 asymptomatic piglet, and from a PK-15 cell culture suspension inoculated with a pool of tissues from 1 symptomatic piglet. Ribonuclease-A (RNase)-free water was used as negative control. The RT-PCR was performed immediately after RNA isolation by using the specifi c primer pair for CoV, Cor-FW 5′→3′ (DNA) ACTCAAATGAATTTGAAATATGC, and Cor-RV 5′→3′ (DNA) TCACACTTTGGATAA TCCCA that amplifi es a 251-bp fragment of the polymerase gene (11). The reaction was performed in a total volume of 50 μL containing 2 μL RNA extract, 10 μL 5× QIAGEN One- Step RT-PCR buffer, 2 μL dNTPs mix (fi nal concentration of 400 μmol/L of each dNTP), 1.8 μL QIAGEN One- Step RT-PCR Enzyme Mix, 4 μmol/L of each primer and RNase-free water to 50 μL. The reaction was conducted in a thermal cycler (PCR Sprint Thermo Electron Corp., Waltham, MA, USA) with an initial reverse transcription at 50°C for 30-s activation at 95°C for 15 s, 40 cycles of amplifi cation (30 s, at 94°C, 30 s at 50°C, and 1 min at 72°C), and a fi nal extension step at 72°C for 10 min.
The amplicons were purifi ed by using the QIAquick PCR purifi cation kit (QIAGEN) and sequenced on a Mega-Base 1000 DNA sequencer (GE Healthcare, Chalfont St. Giles, UK). The obtained sequence was analyzed by using NCBI BLAST (www.ncbi.hlm.hig.gov).
Virus isolation was attempted by inoculation of PK-15 and SK-K cells with brains and tonsils from 5 pigs positive for PHE-CoV by RT-PCR. Five blind passages were performed at 7-day intervals. IHC testing was also performed on SK-K cells.
Microscopic changes were observed in samples taken from 5-to 11-day-old affected pigs. The most remarkable changes were perivascular cuffi ng around Meissner and Auerbach ganglia in the muscle layer of stomach ( Figure  1, panel B), ganglioneuritis in the trigeminal ganglion, and nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis (Figure 1, panel C). PHE-CoV-positive neurons were found in the brainstem (Figure 1, panel D) and trigeminal ganglion.
RT-PCR analysis showed a product of the expected size for CoV (≈250 bp) in all analyzed brain samples. No amplifi cation was observed in inoculated PK 15 cells (Figure 2). The relationship between clinical course, lesions, and IHC and RT-PCR results is shown in the Table. A constant 116nt sequence was obtained for all products amplifi ed from symptomatic piglets and submitted to GenBank (accession no. EF602436). The sequence showed a 95% identity with the complete genome of PHE-CoV strain VW572 (accession no. DQ 011855) and with PHE-CoV RNA-directed RNA polymerase gene (accession no. AF 124988). Detection of amplicons of ≈250 bp with "pancoronavirus" primers in brain samples is highly suggestive of the presence of PHE-CoV. Sequence analysis confi rmed this observation. Cytopathic effects were not observed, and PHE-CoV antigens were not detected in inoculated cells.

Conclusions
From an epidemiologic standpoint, the clinical course of the disease (3 weeks), age of affected pigs (<3 weeks), and clinical signs were in agreement with those of VWD caused by PHE-CoV (3,8,13). On PHE-CoV-endemic farms, immune sows apparently provided immunity to their offspring through colostrum (3), and clinical disease seldom occurred. In our study, because the gilt pool was so large, a nonimmune subpopulation very likely existed and might have acted as a potential source of virus multiplication. The severity of clinical signs such as vomiting, emaciation, wasting, and death was greater than that previously reported (10). Factors that might have enhanced the clinical manifestations of the disease were a nonimmune population and the winter season (3,8,10).
described nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis in 70%-100% of animals showing neurologic signs and in 20%-60% of animals with VWD syndrome. In our study, nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis was found in 50% of infected animals.
Our IHC results agreed with fi ndings reported by others in which CoV antigen was detected only in neurons (8,14,15). Detection of amplicons of ≈250 bp in brain samples was highly suggestive of PHE-CoV because this is the only known neurotropic CoV for pigs (4