Complete genome of a porcine calicivirus strain in Anhui province, China, is significantly shorter than that of the other Chinese strain.

Caliciviruses that cause diarrhea have been reported in both industrial and developing countries, including China, in recent years. Here, we report the complete genome of a porcine calicivirus strain, Ah-1, which is prevalent in swine groups in Anhui Province. This viral genome is 7,342 nucleotides (nt) long, excluding the poly(A) of the 3' end, which is 202 nt shorter in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) than that of the other Chinese porcine calicivirus strain (Ch-sw-sav1; GenBank accession number FJ387164), previously isolated in the Shanghai area, China, though they shared 98.8% sequence identity over the whole genome excluding the 202-nt-shorter region.