Phylogeographic Analysis of African Swine Fever Virus, Western Europe, 2018

Abstract

In September 2018, African swine fever in wild boars was detected in Belgium. We used African swine fever–infected spleen samples to perform a phylogenetic analysis of the virus. The causative strain belongs to genotype II, and its closest relatives are viruses previously isolated in Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, and European Russia.

Keywords

• African swine fever
• Asfarviridae
• wild boar
• emergence
• Belgium
• viruses