Establishment of Nanoparticle-assisted PCR Assay for Detection ofPorcine Deltacoronavirus
In this paper,a pair ofprimers were designed according to the M gene sequence of porcinedeltacoronavirus(PDCoV)that waspublished in Genbank,then a kind ofnanoparticle-assisted PCR assay was established. The results showed that thestandard samples with minimum concentration of 102 copies/μL could be detected by this method,and therewas no any cross-reaction with other common swine disease viruses. Compared toregular PCR assay,the nanoparticle-assisted PCR assaypresented a higher detection rate when 62 diarrhea feces collected fromdomestic swine farms were tested. When 268 fecal swab samples of imported livepigs were tested by both the two methods,the detectionresults all showed negative. Therefore,thenanoparticle-assisted PCR assay established in the paper could be used indetecting PDCoV in domestic swine farms and monitoring imported live pigs,which would be a strong technical tool for laboratory detection ofPDCoV.