What is PEDV?
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) is a coronavirus that affects swine, causing diarrhea and vomiting, and death of 50-100 percent of infected piglets. Adult pigs can become infected but generally do not have mortality.
What is porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)?
Abstract Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), a member of the genus Alphacoronavirusin the family Coronaviridae, causes acute diarrhea and/or vomiting, dehydration and high mortality in neonatal piglets.
What is PED diarrhea?
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is a highly contagious and lethal enteric disease and is caused by PED virus (PEDV) which belongs to the Alphacoronavirusgenus in the Coronaviridaefamily.
What is the shape and size of PEDV?
PEDV is enveloped, pleomorphic and 95–190 nm in diameter, including the projections, which are approximately 18 nm in length (Pensaert and de Bouck, 1978). Details of the viral structure and genome, epidemiology, evolution, and replication of PEDV are described by Thiel and colleagues in another review in this current special issue.