Phylogeographic Analysis of African Swine Fever Virus, Western Europe, 2018
- Mutien Garigliany
- Daniel Desmecht
- Marylène Tignon
- Dominique Cassart
- Christophe Lesenfant
- Julien Paternostre
- Rosario Volpe
- Ann Brigitte Cay
- Thierry van den Berg
- Annick Linden
Publication date
January 2019
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
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
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