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Outbreak of African swine fever in South Korea, 2019
Author(s) -
Kim HyunJoo,
Cho KiHyun,
Lee SooKyoung,
Kim DaYoung,
Nah JinJu,
Kim HyunJeong,
Kim HyoJin,
Hwang JiYong,
Sohn HyunJoo,
Choi JunGu,
Kang HaeEun,
Kim YongJoo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transboundary and emerging diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.392
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1865-1682
pISSN - 1865-1674
DOI - 10.1111/tbed.13483
Subject(s) - outbreak , african swine fever , intergenic region , virology , genotype , biology , african swine fever virus , veterinary medicine , virus , medicine , genetics , gene , genome
African swine fever, a fatal haemorrhagic disease of swine, was confirmed in domestic pigs for the first time in South Korea in September 2019. The causative virus belonged to the p72 genotype II and had an additional tandem repeat sequence in the intergenic region (IGR) between the I73R and I329L.