ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (8): 1173-1181.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.08.001

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Research Progress of Torovirus

LIU Hua-nan, CAO Wei-jun, YANG Fan, ZHENG Hai-xue*   

  1. (State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Foot-and-Mouth DiseaseReference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China)
  • Received:2013-03-04 Online:2013-08-23 Published:2013-08-23

Abstract:

Torovirus, an important member of the Coronaviridae family in Nidovirales, contains four official species: equine torovirus, bovine torovirus, swine torovirus, and human torovirus, they are the agents cause gastroenteritis and respiratory diseases in different animal species and human. It has been 30 years since the virus firstly separated and reported in Lowa America, the progress in understanding the molecular epidemiology about torovirus and its hosts have been updating, this review introduced the most recently research progress of torovirus include finding and taxonomy, characteristic, genetic structure, mechanism of cell apoptosis, also contain variation, epidemiology, pathology, detection methods and a summary about possible research prospect.

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