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Genetic Analysis of African Swine Fever Virus From the 2018 Outbreak in South-Eastern Burundi
5 Nov 2020
Abstract excerpt
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease which causes high mortality, approaching 100%, in domestic pigs and wild boars. The disease has neithero cure nor vaccine and it is caused by an ASF virus (ASFV), the only member of the family Asfarviridae, genus Asfivirus and the only known DNA arbovirus. Twenty four genotypes of ASFV have been described to date and all of them have been described in...
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