“…Due to the widespread use of commercial vaccines in Chinese pig herds, PCV2 infection has been controlled to some extent (31). However, since PCV3 was first discovered in 2016, PCV3 infection has occurred on pig farms in more than 10 provinces including Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, and Jiangsu, causing great damage to the Chinese pig industry (3,16,18,19,24,27). Some studies showed that PCV3 infection was associated with abortion, respiratory failure, and diarrhoea in weaned piglets (10,31); however, the pathogenesis of PCV3 was still unclear (5,13).…”