African swine fever endemic persistence in wild boar populations: Key mechanisms explored through modelling.

ABSTRACT: African swine fever (ASF) is a serious global concern from an ecological and economic point of view. While it is well established that its main transmission routes comprise contact between infected and susceptible animals and transmission through contaminated carcasses, the specific mechanism leading to its long-term persistence is still not clear. Among others, a proposed mechanism involves the potential role of convalescent individuals, which would be able to shed the virus after the end of the acute infection. Using a spatially explicit, stochastic, individual-based model, we tested: (1) if ASF can persist when transmission occurs only through infected wild boars and infected carcasses; (2) if the animals that survive ASF can play a relevant role in increasing ASF persistence chances; (

SUBMITTER: Gervasi V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292501 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature