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African Swine Fever Virus DNA in Soft Ticks, Senegal

  • Laurence Vial
  • Barbara Wieland
  • Ferran Jori
  • Eric Etter
  • Linda Dixon
  • François Roger
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Publication date
December 2007
Icon DOI
10.3201/eid1312.071022
Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Journal
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Abstract

African swine fever is a highly contagious disease of pigs in Africa. Although its persistence in Senegal may be caused by asymptomatic carriers involved in the domestic transmission cycle, we demonstrated that the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai can be naturally infected with the causative agent

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