African Swine Fever Virus
"African Swine Fever Virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The lone species of the genus Asfivirus. It infects domestic and wild pigs, warthogs, and bushpigs. Disease is endemic in domestic swine in many African countries and Sardinia. Soft ticks of the genus Ornithodoros are also infected and act as vectors.
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D000358
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.280.049.035
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "African Swine Fever Virus" by people in Profiles.
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Differential vector competence of Ornithodoros soft ticks for African swine fever virus: What if it involves more than just crossing organic barriers in ticks? Parasit Vectors. 2020 Dec 09; 13(1):618.
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Comparative vector competence of the Afrotropical soft tick Ornithodoros moubata and Palearctic species, O. erraticus and O. verrucosus, for African swine fever virus strains circulating in Eurasia. PLoS One. 2019; 14(11):e0225657.