viruses Article Exploring the Cause of Diarrhoea and Poor Growth in 8–11-Week-Old Pigs from an Australian Pig Herd Using Metagenomic Sequencing Tarka Raj Bhatta 1,2 , Anthony Chamings 1,2 and Soren Alexandersen 1,2,3,* 1 Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +61-(0)-342159635 Abstract: Diarrhoea and poor growth among growing pigs is responsible for significant economic losses in pig herds globally and can have a wide range of possible aetiologies. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are useful for the detection and characterisation of diverse groups of viruses and bacteria and can thereby provide a better understanding of complex interactions among microorganisms potentially causing clinical disease. Here, we used a metagenomics approach to identify and characterise the possible pathogens in colon and lung samples from pigs with diarrhoea and poor growth in an Australian pig herd. We identified and characterized a wide diversity of porcine viruses including RNA viruses, in particular several picornaviruses—porcine sapelovirus (PSV), enterovirus G (EV-G), and porcine teschovirus (PTV), and a porcine astrovirus (PAstV). Single Citation: Bhatta, T.R.; Chamings, A.; stranded DNA viruses were also detected and included parvoviruses like porcine bocavirus (PBoV) Alexandersen, S. Exploring the Cause and porcine parvovirus 2 (PPV2), porcine parvovirus 7 (PPV7), porcine bufa virus (PBuV), and of Diarrhoea and Poor Growth in porcine adeno-associated virus (AAV).