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Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis to predict suitability for African swine fever endemicity in Africa [PDF]

, 2014
Background African swine fever (ASF) is endemic in several countries of Africa and may pose a risk to all pig producing areas on the continent. Official ASF reporting is often rare and there remains limited awareness of the continent-wide distribution ...
Costard, S, Ctr Int Rech Agron Dev, De Glanville, W A, Pfeiffer, D U, Vial, L, Wieland, B   +5 more
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The African Swine Fever Virus Transcriptome

Journal of Virology, 2020
African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes incurable and often lethal hemorrhagic fever in domestic pigs. In 2020, ASF presents an acute and global animal health emergency that has the potential to devastate entire national economies as effective vaccines or antiviral drugs are not currently available (according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
Gwenny Cackett, Dorota Matelska, Michal Sýkora, Raquel Portugal, Michal Malecki, Jürg Bähler, Linda Dixon, Finn Werner   +7 more
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Attitudes and Beliefs of Pig Farmers and Wild Boar Hunters Towards Reporting of African Swine Fever in Bulgaria, Germany and the Western Part of the Russian Federation [PDF]

, 2014
This study investigated the attitudes and beliefs of pig farmers and hunters in Germany, Bulgaria and the western part of the Russian Federation towards reporting suspected cases of African swine fever (ASF).
Acevedo, Ajzen, Blome, Burnham, Cohen, Costard, De la Torre, EFSA, EFSA, Elbers, Gallois, Gogin, Gortazar, Hadorn, Limon, Mur, Mur, Nigsch, R-Development-Core-Team, Sheeran, Sánchez-Vizcaíno   +20 more
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African Swine Fever Virus Multigene Family Genes Inhibit the Type-I Interferon Response by Acting on the NFκB and IRF3 Signalling Pathways at the Transcription Factor Level or below

Proceedings, 2020
African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a haemorrhagic infection of swine, which routinelydisplays 100% lethality. [...]
Samuel Connell, Ana Reis, Anusyah Rathakrishnan, Sarah Gilbert, Linda Dixon   +4 more
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Nine Years of African Swine Fever in Poland

Viruses, 2023
(1) Background: African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious and fatal haemorrhagic disease in domestic pigs and wild boars, causing significant economic loss to the swine industry in the European Union.
Mateusz Kruszyński, Kacper Śróda, Małgorzata Juszkiewicz, Dominika Siuda, Monika Olszewska, Grzegorz Woźniakowski   +5 more
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Genotyping of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Isolates in Romania with the First Report of Genotype II in Symptomatic Pigs

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
The World Organisation for Animal Health has listed African swine fever as the most important deadly disease in domestic swine around the world. The virus was recently brought from South-East Africa to Georgia in 2007, and it has since expanded to Russia,
Andrei Ungur, Cristina Daniela Cazan, Luciana Cătălina Panait, Marian Taulescu, Oana Maria Balmoș, Marian Mihaiu, Florica Bărbuceanu, Andrei Daniel Mihalca, Cornel Cătoi   +8 more
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The spatial ecology of free-ranging domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) in western Kenya [PDF]

, 2013
Background In many parts of the developing world, pigs are kept under low-input systems where they roam freely to scavenge food. These systems allow poor farmers the opportunity to enter into livestock keeping without large capital investments.
Cook, Elizabeth A., De Glanville, William, Fèvre, Eric M., Thomas, Lian F   +3 more
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Molecular Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus, China, 2018

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
On August 3, 2018, an outbreak of African swine fever in pigs was reported in China. We subjected a virus from an African swine fever–positive pig sample to phylogenetic analysis.
Shengqiang Ge, Jinming Li, Xiaoxu Fan, Fuxiao Liu, Lin Li, Qinghua Wang, Weijie Ren, Jingyue Bao, Chunju Liu, Hua Wang, Yutian Liu, Yongqiang Zhang, Tiangang Xu, Xiaodong Wu, Zhiliang Wang   +14 more
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ASF -survivors’ sera do not inhibit African swine fever virus replication in vitro

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2022
African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes one of the most dangerous diseases of pigs and wild boar – African swine fever (ASF). Since its second introduction into Europe (in 2007), the disease has been spreading consistently, and now ASF-free European ...
Walczak Marek, Juszkiewicz Małgorzata, Szymankiewicz Krzesimir, Szczotka-Bochniarz Anna, Woźniakowski Grzegorz   +4 more
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African Swine Fever Virus as a Difficult Opponent in the Fight for a Vaccine—Current Data

Viruses, 2021
Prevention and control of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in Europe, Asia, and Africa seem to be extremely difficult in view of the ease with which it spreads, its high resistance to environmental conditions, and the many obstacles related to the ...
Hanna Turlewicz-Podbielska, Anna Kuriga, Rafał Niemyjski, Grzegorz Tarasiuk, Małgorzata Pomorska-Mól   +4 more
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