1 Journal of Clinical Microbiology (original research article) 1 2 Isolation and Characterization of Porcine Deltacoronavirus 3 from Pigs with Diarrhea in the United States 4 5 Hui Hu1, 2, Kwonil Jung1, Anastasia N. Vlasova1, Juliet Chepngeno1, Zhongyan Lu1, 6 Qiuhong Wang1, Linda J. Saif 1* 7 1 Food Animal Health Research Program, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The 8 Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, 44691 United States 9 2 College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 10 450002 China 11 12 Running head: Isolation of Porcine Deltacoronavirus 13 14 * Corresponding author: Linda J. Saif (