In order to correlate IDV with respiratory disease and to exclude other causative agents, clinical specimens from IDV positive herds were also subjected to standard bacteriological and/or virological PCR tests against the most common swine respiratory pathogens. These included: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP)26 , swine IAV27 (link), Porcine respiratory reproductive (PRRS) (LSI VetMAX™ PRRSV EU/NA Real-Time PCR Kit, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA USA) virus and Porcine Circovirus 2 virus (PCV-2)28 (link).
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