“…In early 2014, an outbreak of PDCoV-associated diarrhea broke out in pig farms in Ohio, United States, which led to the identification of the first clinical case of PDCoV infection in pigs [ 2 , 4 , 7 , 8 ]. Since then, PDCoV has been detected worldwide, including in Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Peru, and Mexico [ 3 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. According to previous phylogenetic analyses, PDCoV can be divided into three or four groups based on their full-length genome sequences [ 15 , 24 ].…”