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Virus Name:
African swine fever
Abbreviation:
ASFV
Status
Arbovirus
Select Agent
No
SALS Level
SALS Basis
Other Information
USDA Restricted, USDA High Consequence Agent
Antigenic Group
ungrouped
Remarks
The executive Commmittee of the Internation Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has accepted a taxonomoc proposal which stated that African Swine Fever virus should be considered a family separate from the Iridoviridae family (19) ASFV localizes predominatly in the mid-gut of the tick, but rapidly innvades haemocoele and other tissues (16). It is transmitted transovarially and also from infected male to female ticks, probably during copulation (11,15,16,18).
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