African swine fever: how can global spread be prevented?

Costard, Solenne; Wieland, Barbara; de Glanville, William; Jori, Ferrán; Rowlands, Rebecca; Vosloo, Wilna; Roger, François; U. Pfeiffer, Dirk; K. Dixon, Linda

doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0098

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African swine fever: how can global spread be prevented?

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences • Aug 17, 2009

Authors:

Solenne Costard

Barbara Wieland

William de Glanville

Abstract

African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating haemorrhagic fever of pigs with mortality rates approaching 100 per cent. It causes major economic losses, threatens food security and limits pig production in affected countries. ASF is caused by a large DNA virus, African swine fever virus (ASFV). There i...

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African swine fever virus

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African swine fever

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