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Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease

Investigating potential existence of chronic, persistent foot-and-mouth disease virus infection in domestic pigs; implications for disease control strategies

February 18, 2014By Jonathan Arzt

The severe measures routinely enacted for control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks are based upon extreme contagiousness of the disease, rapidity of spread, and fear of residual...

Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease

Identification of genetic signatures for African swine fever virus serologic group specificity

July 1, 2013By Daniel Rock

African swine fever (ASF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease in domestic swine with mortality rates approaching 100%. Devastating ASF disease outbreaks and the continuing disease epidemic in...

Swine Health - Foreign Animal Disease