Novel Senecavirus A in Swine with Vesicular Disease, United States, July 2015

Abstract

<p><strong>To the Editor:</strong> Senecavirus A (SVA; formerly known as Seneca Valley virus [SVV] belongs to the genus <em>Senecavirus</em>, family <em>Picornaviridae</em> (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R1" id="x-x-x-__tag_540676048"><em>1</em></a>,<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R2"><em>2</em></a>). SVA was first isolated in 2001 as a contaminant of the PER.C6 cell line and designated as SVV-001 (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R1" id="x-x-x-__tag_540676044"><em>1</em></a>,<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R3"><em>3</em></a>). Since its discovery, SVA has been infrequently detected in swine with idiopathic vesicular disease (IVD) (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R4" id="x-x-x-__tag_540676043"><em>4</em></a><em>–</em><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R6" id="x-x-x-__tag_540676041"><em>6</em></a>), which clinically resembles foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, vesicular exanthema of swine, and vesicular stomatitis. The virus has also been retrospectively detected in previous cases with various clinical conditions in the United States during 1988–2001 (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R7"><em>7</em></a>). However, the clinical significance of SVA in swine could not be determined (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R7"><em>7</em></a>,<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918180/#R8" id="x-x-x-__tag_540676040"><em>8</em></a>).</p>