Research Article

Attenuation of a Highly Pathogenic Porcine Deltacoronavirus Strain CZ2020 by a Serial Passage In Vitro

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Intestinal lesions of PDCoV-challenged pigs at 8 DPC and virus distribution analysis. (a) Representative images of gross examination of PDCoV-challenged pigs at 8 DPC. The representative intestinal lesions were labeled with red arrows. (b) Three-day-old piglets were orally inoculated with 2 × 105 TCID50 of indicated PDCoVs per pig or mock inoculated with DMEM. At 8 DPC, the intestine samples were collected for the determination of the virus load in each intestinal segment by TaqMan-based RT-qPCR with primers targeting the N gene.; ns, no significance. (c) Heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney samples from challenged piglets at 8 DPC were collected for the determination of the virus load in each intestinal segment by TaqMan-based RT-qPCR with primers targeting the N gene.
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