“…It was identified later in several states of USA (Li et al., ; Marthaler, Jiang, Collins, & Rossow, ; Wang, Byrum, & Zhang, ) and has now spread to South Korea, mainland China, Thailand and Laos (Lee & Lee, ; Lee et al., ; Lorsirigool et al., ; Madapong et al., ; Song et al., ). The emergence of PDCoV was most often associated with clinical infection symptoms including diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration in pigs, especially in sucking and nursing piglets (Janetanakit et al., ; Ma et al., ; Marthaler, Raymond et al ; Song et al., ). These worldwide outbreaks of PDCoV have caused economic losses to the global commercial swine industry (Chen, Gauger et al., ; Chen, Zhu et al., ; Homwong et al., ; Song et al., ; Wang et al., ).…”