Pseudorabies virus infection in hunting dogs in Oita Japan: Report from aprefecture free from Aujeszky’s disease in domestic pigs

摘要

We isolated two pseudorabies virus (PRV) isolates (designated OT-1 and OT-2) from twohunting dogs exhibiting neurological manifestations after eating the flesh of wild boarhunted in Oita prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. The isolates corresponded to a previouslyreported PRV (MY-1 strain) isolated from a hunting dog in neighboring Miyazaki prefecture,and it clustered into genotype II based on the glycoprotein C sequence. Our resultssuggest that this common PRV strain may have been maintained in wild boars on KyushuIsland even though domestic pigs in this area have attained an Aujeszky’s disease-freestatus.