African Swine Fever
African swine fever (ASF) is caused by a virus that is classified as a member of the Iridovirinae family. The disease in the warthog, the natural host, in Africa was described in 1921 by R. E. Montgomery. The reservoir of the vi rus is inti cks. The i ntr
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DEVELOPMENTS IN VETERINARY VIROLOGY
Yechiel Becker, Series Editor Julia Hadar, Managing Editor
Payne, L.N. (ed.) Marek's Disease (1985) Bumy, A. and Mammerickx, M. (eds.) Enzootic Bovine Leukosis and Bovine Leukemia Virus (1987) Becker, Y. (ed.) African Swine Fever (1987)
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER
edited by Yechiel Becker The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
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The figure on the cover is from Vinuela. E.. "Molecular Biology of African Swine Fever Virus." The figure appears on page 37 of this book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Becker, Yechiel. African swine fever. (Developments in veterinary virology) Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. African swine fever. 2. African swine fever virus. I. Title. II. Series. SF977.A4B43 1987 636.4'0896979 86-23851 ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-9437-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-2343-3 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2343-3
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CONTENTS
Contri butors Preface I.
I ntroduct ion W.R. Hess
2.
Afri can swi ne fever vi rus in nature W.R. Hess
3.
African swine fever - clinical aspects A.M. Ordas Alvarez and I"1.A. Marcotegui
11
4.
Pathobiology and pathogenesis C. A. I"lebus
21
5.
Molecular biology of African swine fever virus E. Vinuela
31
6.
Characterization of ASF virus proteins E. Tabares
51
7.
African swine fever diagnosis ,.J.M. Sanchez-Vizcaino
63
6.
Differential diagnosis between African swine fever and hog cholera C. Terpstra
73
9.
Spontaneously susceptible cells and cell culture methodologies for African swine fever virus I.C. Pan
81
5
10. Approaches to vaccination U. Kihm . M. Ackermann, H. Mueller and R. Pool
127
II. Epidemiology of African swine fever virus V. Becker INDEX
145 151
CONTR I BUTORS M. Ackermann Federal Vacci ne I nst itute 4025 Basle Swi tzerland Vechi eI Becker Department of Molecular Biology FElcul ty of Medi ci ne The Hebrew University of Jerusalem P.O. Box 1172 910 I 0 Jerusalem Israel William R. Hess United states Department of Agriculture Agri cultural Research Servi ce Pfum Island Animal Disease Center P.O. Box 848 Greenport, New York 1 1944 USA Ueli Kihm Federal Vaccine Institute
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