Isolation and initial characterisation of two unknown bocavirus-like viruses from swine in Northern Ireland

The genus Bocavirus consists of three members; bovine parvovirus, canine minute virus and human bocavirus. Recently a novel porcine boca-like virus was identified in pigs in Sweden (PBo-likeV)1. Recent research in our laboratories has isolated and identified 2 antigenically distinct novel bocavirus-like viruses in pigs (Sw-BoV1 and SwBoV2) from farms in Northern Ireland with clinical postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome. Purification of the viruses followed by molecular cloning methods al