“…It was initially found in 2016 in tissues of swine affected by porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome (PDNS), reproductive failure, and cardiac and multisystemic inflammation (Palinski et al, 2017;Phan et al, 2016) in the USA. Subsequently, other reports from Europe (Collins, McKillen, & Allan, 2017;Faccini et al, 2017;Franzo, Legnardi, Hjulsager et al, 2018;Stadejek, Wo zniak, Miłek, & Biernacka, 2017), Asia Ku et al, 2017;Kwon, Yoo, Park, & Lyoo, 2017;Shen et al, 2017;Zhai et al, 2017;Zheng et al, 2017) and South America (Tochetto et al, 2017) described the presence of PCV-3 genome in tissue samples or sera from pigs with different clinical presentations as well as in healthy animals.…”