Risk Factors of African Swine Fever in Domestic Pigs of the Samara Region, Russian Federation.

ABSTRACT: African swine fever (ASF) is an incurable viral disease of domestic and wild pigs. A large-scale spread of ASF began in Eurasia in 2007 and has affected territories from Belgium to the Far East, occurring as both local- and regional-level epidemics. In 2020, a massive ASF epidemic emerged in the southeastern region of European Russia in the Samara Oblast and included 41 outbreaks of ASF in domestic pigs and 40 cases in wild boar. The Samara Oblast is characterized by a relatively low density of wild boar (0.04-0.05 head/km²) and domestic pigs (1.1-1.3 head/km²), with a high prevalence of small-scale productions (household farms). This study aims to understand the driving forces of the disease and perform a risk assessment for this region using complex epidemiological

SUBMITTER: Glazunova AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421595 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature