African swine fever: a global view of the current challenge

MC Gallardo, AT Reoyo, J Fernández-Pinero… - Porcine Health …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract African Swine Fever (ASF) is an important contagious haemorrhagic viral disease
affecting swine whose notification is mandatory due to its high mortality rates and the great …

Epidemiology of African swine fever in Africa today: Sylvatic cycle versus socio‐economic imperatives

ML Penrith, AD Bastos, EMC Etter… - Transboundary and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
African swine fever (ASF) is believed to have evolved in eastern and southern Africa in a
sylvatic cycle between common warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus) and argasid ticks of the …

Identification of a new genotype of African swine fever virus in domestic pigs from Ethiopia

JE Achenbach, C Gallardo… - Transboundary and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
African swine fever (ASF) is an important emerging transboundary animal disease (TAD),
which currently has an impact on many countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus …

Roles of African swine fever virus structural proteins in viral infection

N Jia, Y Ou, Z Pejsak, Y Zhang, J Zhang - Journal of veterinary …, 2017 - sciendo.com
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus and the sole member
of the Asfarviridae family. ASFV infects domestic pigs, wild boars, warthogs, and bush pigs …

One hundred years of African swine fever in Africa: Where have we been, where are we now, where are we going?

ML Penrith, FM Kivaria - Transboundary and emerging …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred years have passed since the first paper on African swine fever (ASF) was
published by Montgomery in 1921. With no vaccine, ineffectiveness of prevention and …

African swine fever: update on Eastern, Central and Southern Africa

LK Mulumba‐Mfumu, C Saegerman… - Transboundary and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Control of African swine fever (ASF) in countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
(ECSA) is particularly complex owing to the presence of all three known epidemiological …

The first genotype II African swine fever virus isolated in Africa provides insight into the current Eurasian pandemic

EP Njau, JB Domelevo Entfellner, EM Machuka… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
African swine fever (ASF) caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV) is ranked by OIE
as the most important source of mortality in domestic pigs globally and is indigenous to …

African swine fever virus (ASFV): Biology, genomics and genotypes circulating in sub-Saharan Africa

EP Njau, EM Machuka, S Cleaveland, GM Shirima… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly infectious and fatal haemorrhagic disease of pigs that is
caused by a complex DNA virus of the genus Asfivirus and Asfarviridae African suids family …

Phylodynamics and evolutionary epidemiology of African swine fever p72-CVR genes in Eurasia and Africa

MA Alkhamis, C Gallardo, C Jurado, A Soler, M Arias… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
African swine fever (ASF) is a complex infectious disease of swine that constitutes
devastating impacts on animal health and the world economy. Here, we investigated the …

Review of the pig-adapted African swine fever viruses in and outside Africa

ML Penrith, J Van Heerden, L Heath, EO Abworo… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The region in eastern, central and southern Africa (ECSA) where African swine fever (ASF)
originated in a sylvatic cycle is home to all the p72 genotypes of ASF virus identified so far …