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History of Porcine Circoviruses1
- PCV1 was first discovered in Germany in 1974 as a contaminant to a cell line in a laboratory
- First identified as a clinical disease in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1991 and reported by Ted Clark, DVM, MVetSc, DACVP, and John Harding, DVM, MSc, of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 1996
- First isolated from Canadian pigs in 1998 by John Ellis, DVM, PhD, DACVP, DACVM
- Differentiated into non-pathogenic PCV1 (non-disease-causing) and pathogenic PCV2 types and reported by Gordon Allan, PhD, in 1999
- Clinical disease was reported in France and Spain starting in 1996
- Since the mid-1990s, the disease has been reported in almost all pig-producing countries around the world
Reference
1. Segalés J, Allan GM, Domingo M. Porcine circovirus diseases. Anim Health Res Rev 2005;6(2):119-42.
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