 African Swine Fever
"African Swine Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A sometimes fatal ASFIVIRUS infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. It is transmitted between domestic swine by direct contact, ingestion of infected meat, or fomites, or mechanically by biting flies or soft ticks (genus Ornithodoros).
| Descriptor ID |
D000357
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.081.885.125 C02.256.142 C22.905.072
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| Concept/Terms |
African Swine Fever- African Swine Fever
- African Swine Fever Virus Infection
- Swine Fever, African
- Wart-Hog Disease
- Wart Hog Disease
- Wart-Hog Diseases
- Asfivirus Infection
- Asfivirus Infections
- Infection, Asfivirus
- Infections, Asfivirus
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Grau FR, Schroeder ME, Mulhern EL, McIntosh MT, Bounpheng MA. Detection of African swine fever, classical swine fever, and foot-and-mouth disease viruses in swine oral fluids by multiplex reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction. J Vet Diagn Invest. 2015 Mar; 27(2):140-9.
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