"African Swine Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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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| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "African Swine Fever" by people in Profiles.
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Change in the ASF entry risk into Japan as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2021 May; 68(3):1700-1703.
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A Deep-Sequencing Workflow for the Fast and Efficient Generation of High-Quality African Swine Fever Virus Whole-Genome Sequences. Viruses. 2019 09 11; 11(9).
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Science-based wildlife disease response. Science. 2019 06 07; 364(6444):943-944.
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African Swine Fever Virus Armenia/07 Virulent Strain Controls Interferon Beta Production through the cGAS-STING Pathway. J Virol. 2019 06 15; 93(12).
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Spread? of deadly pig virus in China hastens vaccine research. Nature. 2019 05; 569(7754):13-14.
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Pathogenesis of African swine fever in domestic pigs and European wild boar - Lessons learned from recent animal trials. Virus Res. 2019 10 02; 271:197614.
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Evaluation of a viral DNA-protein immunization strategy against African swine fever in domestic pigs. Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2019 Feb; 208:34-43.
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Deletion at the 5'-end of Estonian ASFV strains associated with an attenuated phenotype. Sci Rep. 2018 04 25; 8(1):6510.
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No evidence for long-term carrier status of pigs after African swine fever virus infection. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2018 Oct; 65(5):1318-1328.
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African Swine Fever Virus Biology and Vaccine Approaches. Adv Virus Res. 2018; 100:41-74.