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Transcriptome profile of spleen tissues from locally-adapted Kenyan pigs (Sus scrofa) experimentally infected with three varying doses of a highly virulent African swine fever virus genotype IX isolate: Ken12/busia.1 (Ken-1033)
2022-04-14
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<h4>Background: </h4> African swine fever (ASF) is a lethal hemorrhagic disease affecting domestic pigs resulting in up to 100 % mortality rates caused by the ASF virus (ASFV). The locally-adapted pigs in South-western Kenya have been reported to be resilient to disease and harsh climatic conditions and tolerate ASF; however, the mechanisms by which this tolerance is sustained remain largely unknown. We evaluated...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 02e21bfc-4e02-5d49-b60a-5194d78f1b94
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1543326/v1
