Wild boar harbouring African swine fever virus in the demilitarized zone in South Korea, 2019
Seon‐Hee Kim, Ji‐Soo Kim, Kidong Son, Yong-Jun Choi, Hyesung Jeong, Yong-Kwan Kim, Jung-Eun Park, Yoon‐Jee Hong, Song‐I Lee, Seung-Jun Wang, Hyun-Seo Lee, Won-Meong Kim, Weon‐Hwa Jheong
Abstract
The African swine fever virus (ASFV) was first detected in wild boar in the Demilitarized Zone, a bordered area between South and North Korea, on 2 October 2019. Phylogenetic analyses of ASFV genes encoding p72 and CD2v indicated that the causative strain belongs to genotype II and serogroup 8, respectively, and contained additional tandem repeat sequences between the I73R and the I329L protein genes.
Topics & Concepts
Wild boarAfrican swine fever virusVirologyBiologyPhylogenetic treeDMZOutbreakGenotypeStrain (injury)African swine feverVirusGeneGeneticsEcologyAnatomyArchitectural engineeringJoint (building)EngineeringAnimal Disease Management and EpidemiologyVector-Borne Animal DiseasesViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology