African Swine Fever
Preventing African Swine Fever:
... The workshop aimed to present and discuss the emerging infectious disease African Swine Fever (ASF) and the significant threats this disease poses to the Suiformes kept by EAZA Member zoos. ...
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African swine fever epidemiology and control
... 3.1.2. Role of vaccination in African swine fever control and prevention policies. Once vaccines become available for ASFV, their use must be embedded in an ASF control and preven- tion policy that ...
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African swine fever in wild boar
... The European Commission requested EFSA to compare the reliability of wild boar density estimates across the EU and to provide guidance to improve data collection methods. Currently, the only EU-wide available data are ...
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Purification and properties of African swine fever virus.
... We describe a method for African swine fever (ASF) virus purification based on equilibrium centrifugation in Percoll density gradients of extracellular virions produced in infected VERO [r] ...
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Comparison of African Swine Fever Virus Prevalence in Nigerian Indigenous Pig, Its Hybrid and Backcross in an Environment Prone to African Swine Fever
... of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in Nigerian Indigenous pig (NIP), its hybrid and backcross using Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) screening method on the extracted DNA and haematological screening ...
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Intermediate class of mRNAs in African swine fever virus.
... A transcriptional analysis of the African swine fever virus (ASFV) I226R and I243L genes is presented. Steady-state kinetics and transfection experiments showed the existence of a new temporal class ...
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A Proteomic Atlas of the African Swine Fever Virus Particle
... ABSTRACT African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large and complex DNA virus that causes a highly lethal swine disease for which there is no vaccine ...
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African swine fever: an unprecedented disaster and challenge to China
... Background: African swine fever (ASF), caused by African swine fever virus, is a hemorrhagic and often fatal disease of domestic pigs and wild boar, which is notifiable to the ...
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Molecular epidemiology of African swine fever in East Africa
... 2. Bastos ADS, Penrith M-L, Macome F, Pinto F, Thomson GR (2004) Co-circulation of two genetically distinct viruses in an outbreak of African swine fever in Mozambique: no evidence for individual co- ...
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Impacts of African Swine Fever in Iowa and the United States
... of African Swine Fever on US ...feral swine and that the United States is unable to eliminate the disease over the ten-year projection period (the all-years scenario); and, the second scenario ...
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Assembly of African swine fever virus: role of polyprotein pp220.
... viruses. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is an exception because it encodes a polyprotein, named pp220, to produce several major components of the virus particle, proteins p150, p37, p34, and ...
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Multigene families in African swine fever virus: family 110.
... The genome of African swine fever virus was screened for the existence of repetitive sequences by hybridization between different cloned restriction fragments covering the viral DNA.. Se[r] ...
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Monoclonal antibodies specific for African swine fever virus proteins.
... We have obtained 60 stable hybridomas which produced immunoglobulins that recognized 12 proteins from African swine fever virus particles and African swine fever virus-infected cells.. M[r] ...
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The evolution of African swine fever (ASF) in Europe and our country
... 2007, African swine fever reached to the Caucasus when a cargo ship disposed garbage, containing meat on shore in the Georgian harbor city of ...EU African swine fever (ASF) ...
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Multigene families in African swine fever virus: family 505.
... Sequencing of restriction fragment EcoRI A-Sall C of African swine fever virus has revealed the existence of a multigene family, designated family 505 because of the average number of am[r] ...
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Epidemiological considerations on African swine fever in Europe 2014–2018
... 2007 African swine fever (ASF) arrived at a Black Sea harbour in Georgia and in 2014 the infection reached the European Union (EU), where it still expands its ...
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Approaches and Perspectives for Development of African Swine Fever Virus Vaccines
... * Correspondence: arias@inia.es; Tel.: +34-916-202-300 Academic Editor: Alexander Zakhartchouk Received: 1 September 2017; Accepted: 3 October 2017; Published: 7 October 2017 Abstract: African swine ...
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The African Swine Fever Virus Thymidine Kinase Gene Is Required for Efficient Replication in Swine Macrophages and for Virulence in Swine
... African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large icosahedral enveloped DNA virus and is classified as the only member of a new virus family, the Asfaviridae (3, ...44). African swine ...
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A Nonessential African Swine Fever Virus Gene UK Is a Significant Virulence Determinant in Domestic Swine
... pathogenic African swine fever virus (ASFV) isolate E70 revealed a novel gene, UK, that is immediately upstream from the previously described ASFV virulence-associated gene NL-S ...infection. ...
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Novel Swine Virulence Determinant in the Left Variable Region of the African Swine Fever Virus Genome
... the African swine fever virus (ASFV) NL gene deletion mutant E70 ⌬ NL is attenuated in ...in swine (100% mortality) suggested that these isolates encoded an additional virulence determinant(s) ...
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