Experimental Infection of Domestic Pigs with African Swine Fever Virus Isolated in 2019 in Mongolia.

ABSTRACT: African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious viral disease caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV), that causes high mortality in domestic swine and wild boar (Sus scrofa). Currently, outbreaks are mitigated through strict quarantine measures and the culling of affected herds, resulting in massive economic losses to the global pork industry. In 2019, an ASFV outbreak was reported in Mongolia, describing a rapidly progressing clinical disease and gross lesions consistent with the acute form of ASF; the virus was identified as a genotype II virus. Due to the limited information on clinical disease and viral dynamics within hosts available from field observations of the Mongolian isolates, we conducted the present study to further evaluate the progression of clinical disease, virulenc

SUBMITTER: McDowell CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9781604 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature