The nature of the spread of porcine circovirus type 2 as an emerging in Ukraine during the period from 2007 to 2012

Pathogenic Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) is a causal agent of many PCV‑2‑assocciated diseases of pigs, including porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome. Those diseases have a harmful effect by pigs’ production. Also, hotbeds of this infection are providing wide spread of this virus around the world. Ukraine is one of «hotspot» for PCV‑2‑assocciated infection, but has not enough information about distribution of this virus. Therefore, we have conducted a study to identify the causative agent of the mentioned disease. This article summarizes the results obtained by studying pathological material during the period from 2007 to 2012 by molecular diagnostics (PCR). Our results show that the distribution area for PCV-2 in Ukraine is mostly Ternopil’ (80 %), Kirovograd (60 %), Vinnitsa (57 %), and Dnipropetrovs’k (52 %) regions. It is less common in Kharkov (35 %), Cherkassy and Zaporizhya (both 27 %), and Lviv (33 %) regions. Nevertheless, some regions – like Zhitomir, Ivano-Frankivsk and Luhansk regions and Volyn’ – require a detailed study on the spread of the PCV-2

В статті підсумовуються результати, отримані шляхом вивчення патологічного матеріалу в період з 2007 по 2012 рр. на наявність цирковірусу свиней 2 типу. Наші результати показують, що основна територія де циркулює PCV-2 в Україні – це Тернопільська (80 %), Кіровоградська (60 %), Вінницька (57 %) та Дніпропетровська (52 %) області