Study of the swine pox virus cultural and virulent properties, isolated from the Russian Federation
The article presents the results of the swinepox virus adaptation isolated in the Belgorod region (2013) to transplanted pig kidney cell culture (PK-15). In order to study the characteristics of the clinical course and dynamics of infectious process of the disease, experimental infection of susceptible animals was carried out by intracutaneous and contact infection. Experimental infection of pigs with a culture virus showed a decrease in its virulence as compared with the initial virus-containing material (suspension of scabs from the skin of sick pigs). Contact infected animals had no clinical signs. Infection was confirmed by detecting the DNA of the swinepox virus by the PCR method from swabs of the oral cavity and by isolating the virus in the primary cell culture.