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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages 613-614Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001049
Keywords
Asfarviridae; ICTV Report; Taxonomy; African swine fever virus
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- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Tecnologia of Spain [AGL2015-69598-R]
- Wellcome Trust [WT108418AIA]
- BBSRC [BBS/E/I/00007030] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/I/00007030] Funding Source: researchfish
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The family Asfarviridae includes the single species African swine fever virus, isolates of which have linear dsDNA genomes of 170-194 kbp. Virions have an internal core, an internal lipid membrane, an icosahedral capsid and an outer lipid envelope. Infection of domestic pigs and wild boar results in an acute haemorrhagic fever with transmission by contact or ingestion, or by ticks of the genus Ornithodoros. Indigenous pigs act as reservoirs in Africa, where infection is endemic, and from where introductions occur periodically to Europe. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Asfarviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/asfarviridae.
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