PMID- 34529151 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211015 LR - 20211015 IS - 1432-8798 (Electronic) IS - 0304-8608 (Linking) VI - 166 IP - 11 DP - 2021 Nov TI - A strain of highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus: genomic characterization, pathogenicity, and construction of an infectious full-length cDNA clone. PG - 3127-3141 LID - 10.1007/s00705-021-05212-w [doi] AB - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), which inflicts major economic losses on the global pig farming industry. Based on its similarity to highly pathogenic strains, the GDzj strain isolated in this study was predicted to be highly pathogenic. We therefore analyzed the pathogenicity of this strain experimentally in piglets. All piglets challenged with this virus experienced fever or high fever, loss of appetite, decreased food intake, daily weight loss, shortness of breath, and listlessness, and the necropsy results showed that they had experienced severe interstitial pneumonia. We then used the BAC system to construct a full-length cDNA infectious clone of GDzj, and the rescued virus displayed in vitro proliferation characteristics similar to those of the parental PRRSV strain. In summary, we successfully isolated a highly pathogenic PRRSV strain and constructed a full-length infectious cDNA clone from it, thereby providing an effective reverse genetics platform for further study of viral pathogenesis. CI - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Wang, Shuangyun AU - Wang S AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Liu, Yanling AU - Liu Y AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Yu, Linyang AU - Yu L AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Liang, Tairun AU - Liang T AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Zhang, Pengfei AU - Zhang P AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Dong, Jianguo AU - Dong J AD - School of Animal Husbandry and Medical Engineering, Xinyang Agriculture and Forestry University, Xinyang, 464000, China. FAU - Zhang, Leyi AU - Zhang L AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Liang, Pengshuai AU - Liang P AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Wang, Lei AU - Wang L AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. FAU - Xu, Zheng AU - Xu Z AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. 26103686@qq.com. FAU - Song, Changxu AU - Song C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5311-0439 AD - College of Animal Science & National Engineering Center for Swine Breeding Industry, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou, 510642, China. cxsong2004@163.com. LA - eng GR - 2018YFD0501100/the National Key Research and Development Program of China/ GR - 201817SY0002/Major animal disease prevention and control technology research and promotion projects/ GR - 2019B020211003/Guangdong Province Key Field R&D Program Project/ GR - ZDXK201702/the 2020 Youth Backbone Training Plan of Henan University of Higher Education/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210916 PL - Austria TA - Arch Virol JT - Archives of virology JID - 7506870 RN - 0 (DNA, Complementary) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial MH - DNA, Complementary/genetics MH - Genome, Viral MH - Lung/virology MH - Lymph Nodes/pathology/virology MH - Phylogeny MH - Pneumonia, Viral/pathology/virology MH - Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome/*etiology/virology MH - Porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus/*genetics/growth & development/isolation & purification/*pathogenicity MH - Swine EDAT- 2021/09/17 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/16 06:00 CRDT- 2021/09/16 12:27 PHST- 2020/12/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/07/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/16 12:27 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00705-021-05212-w [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00705-021-05212-w [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Virol. 2021 Nov;166(11):3127-3141. doi: 10.1007/s00705-021-05212-w. Epub 2021 Sep 16.