Article
Isolation and Characterization of a Moderately Virulent Classical Swine Fever Virus Emerging in China.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Dec 2017
Luo Y, Ji S, Liu Y, Lei J-L, Xia S-L, Wang Y, Du M-L, Shao L, Meng X-Y, Zhou M, Sun Y, Qiu H-J
Abstract excerpt
Classical swine fever (CSF) is a devastating infectious disease of pigs caused by classical swine fever virus (CSFV). In China, CSF has been under control owing to extensive vaccination with the lapinized attenuated vaccine (C-strain) since 1950s, despite sporadic or endemic in many regions. However, recently, CSF outbreaks occurred in a large number of swine herds in China. Here, we isolated 15 CSFV strains from...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigenic Variation
- China
- Classical Swine Fever
- Classical Swine Fever Virus
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Phylogeny
- Random Allocation
- Swine
- Vaccination