Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2018)

Molecular Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus, China, 2018

  • Shengqiang Ge,
  • Jinming Li,
  • Xiaoxu Fan,
  • Fuxiao Liu,
  • Lin Li,
  • Qinghua Wang,
  • Weijie Ren,
  • Jingyue Bao,
  • Chunju Liu,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Yutian Liu,
  • Yongqiang Zhang,
  • Tiangang Xu,
  • Xiaodong Wu,
  • Zhiliang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2411.181274
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 11
pp. 2131 – 2133

Abstract

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On August 3, 2018, an outbreak of African swine fever in pigs was reported in China. We subjected a virus from an African swine fever–positive pig sample to phylogenetic analysis. This analysis showed that the causative strain belonged to the p72 genotype II and CD2v serogroup 8.

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