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Rapid emergence of African swine fever virus variants with different numbers of a tandem repeat sequence in South Korea
Author(s) -
Kim SeonHee,
Lee SongI,
Jeong HyunGi,
Yoo Jongchan,
Jeong Hyesung,
Choi Yongjun,
Son Kidong,
Jheong WeonHwa
Publication year - 2021
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.13867
Subject(s) - wild boar , sympatric speciation , biology , virology , tandem repeat , virus , african swine fever , population , sequence (biology) , african swine fever virus , genetics , ecology , genome , gene , demography , sociology
African swine fever virus variants with different numbers of a 10‐bp tandem repeat were isolated in South Korea soon after being identified in wild boar. The short emergence periods and sympatric distributions within a narrow geographical region suggest that the variants were sporadically generated in the pre‐existing viral population.