Polioencephalomyelitis in pigs experimentally infected with porcine enterovirus isolated in Korea, 1; histopathological observations

Shin, T.K. . Coll. of Medicine; Lee, C.S.

Polioencephalomyelitis in pigs experimentally infected with porcine enterovirus isolated in Korea, 1; histopathological observations

1985

Shin, T.K. (Chungnam National Univ., Taejon (Korea R.). Coll. of Medicine) | Lee, C.S. (Kyongbuk National Univ., Taegu (Korea R.))

A total of 10 colostrum-deprived pigs (1 or 2-day-old) and 6 pigs 35-day-old), which had been raised by natural maternal nursing, were used to study the pathogenicity of the porcine enteroviruses by the intracerebral and intramuscular routes of inoculation, which the enterovirus were isolated from the diseased pigs in Korea. The porcine enteroviruses produced an identical polioencephalomyelitis in colostrum-deprived pigs and 35-day-old pigs, which manifested clinical signs and histological changes. Clinically it was characterized by incoordination, rise in rectal temperature, ataxia, flaccid paralysis in all the experimental groups

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