On farms infected with other viruses in addition to the new form of porcine circovirus disease, however, the mortality rate rose to 35 percent to 50 percent. Porcine circoviruses do not infect people.

However, a later water sample was found to contain a porcine circovirus, Xinhua said. The World Health Organization says there are two types of porcine circoviruses, but neither is known to cause ...

Structural comparison with the porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) VLP, the only other circovirus VLP structure to be determined to date, reveals an r.m.s.d of 2.19 Å over 210 residues 13 between the ...

Although some circoviruses are pathogenic for animals and vaccines can be administered, especially in pigs, this is the first known circovirus to be pathogenic for humans. The patient's symptoms ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of circovirus, provisionally named human circovirus 1 (HCirV-1). Circoviruses are a family of small, highly resistant DNA viruses that were ...

HCirV-1 is a novel virus that is distant from known animal circoviruses. It was shown to be implicated in damage to the liver of a patient undergoing immunosuppressive treatment.