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Background  Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) has been described as a non-cytopathic contaminant of the PK-15 cell line. Several experimental infections with PCV1 failed to reproduce disease in pigs. Therefore, PCV1 is generally accepted as non-pathogenic to pigs. To our knowledge, nothing is known about the outcome of PCV1 infections in porcine foetuses. This was examined in the present study.    Results  Nine foetuses from three sows were inoculated at 55 days of gestation: three with 10 4.3  TCID 50  of the PCV1 cell culture strain ATCC-CCL33, three with 10 4.3  TCID 50  of the PCV1 field strain 3384 and three with cell culture medium (mock-inoculated). At 21 days post-inoculation, all 6 PCV1-inoculated and all 3 mock-inoculated foetuses had a normal external appearance. Microscopic lesions characterized by severe haemorrhages were observed in the lungs of two foetuses inoculated with CCL33. High PCV1 titres (up to 10 4.7  TCID 50 /g tissue) were found in the lungs of the CCL33-inoculated foetuses. All other organs of the CCL33-inoculated foetuses and all the organs of the 3384-inoculated foetuses were negative (< 10 1.7  TCID 50 /g tissue) by virus titration. PCV1-positive cells (up to 121 cells/10 mm 2  in CCL33-inoculated foetuses and up to 13 cells/10 mm 2  in 3384-inoculated foetuses) were found in the heart, lungs, spleen, liver, thymus and tonsils. PCR and DNA sequencing of  Rep  recovered CCL33 or 3384 sequences from CCL33- or 3384-inoculated foetuses, respectively.    Conclusions  From this study, it can be concluded that cell culture PCV1 can replicate efficiently and produce pathology in the lungs of porcine foetuses inoculated at 55 days of foetal life.

Outcome of experimental porcine circovirus type 1 infections in mid-gestational porcine foetuses