Kyoungjin Yoon

Introduction:Although idiopathic vesicular disease (IVD) is rarely diagnosed in US swine, in 2015 there were over 100 cases identified throughout the country. Frequently, Senecavirus A (SVA) has been associated with IVD and is presumed to be the etiologic agent. In recent studies we have shown SVA to induce a vesicular disease in nursery and finishing age pigs. This paper describes initial efforts ...

IntroductionPorcine epidemic diarrhea virus is a coronavirus of the alphacoronavirus genus. Identified as a viral agent distinct from transmissible gastroenteritis virus (Wood, 1977) and as a coronavirus (Pensaert and de Bouck, 1978), this virus is responsible for an enteric infection in pigs. Originally identified in England (Wood, 1977), PEDV is now a global pathogen. PEDV was first identified i ...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), caused by a member of the genus Alphacoronavirus (1–3), was first identified in England in 1971 and later in other countries, such as Belgium, China, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Thailand (4–11). In April of 2013, PED emerged in U.S. swine (12) and was detected in swine herds in 18 U.S. states by the end of October (http://www.aasv.org/pedv /P ...