Transmission of African Swine Fever Virus via carrier (survivor) pigs does occur.

Autor: Eblé PL; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands. Electronic address: phaedra.eble@wur.nl., Hagenaars TJ; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands., Weesendorp E; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands., Quak S; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands., Moonen-Leusen HW; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands., Loeffen WLA; Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), P.O. Box 65, 8200 AB, Lelystad, the Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Veterinary microbiology [Vet Microbiol] 2019 Oct; Vol. 237, pp. 108345. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jul 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.06.018
Abstrakt: We investigated whether ASF carrier pigs that had completely recovered from an acute infection with ASFV Netherlands '86, could transmit the disease to naive pigs by direct contact transmission. For this, we used pigs that had survived an ASFV infection, had recovered from disease, and had become carriers of ASFV. These clinically healthy carriers were put together one-by-one with naive contact pigs. Two of the twelve contact pigs developed an acute ASFV infection. Using the results of the experiment we quantified the transmission parameters β carrier (0.039/day) and T carrier (25.4 days). With the survival rate of 0.3 for our ASFV isolate, these parameter values translate into the contribution of carriers to R 0 in groups of pigs being 0.3. Further, we placed naive contact pigs in an ASFV contaminated environment. Here, no contact infections were observed. Our findings show that clinically healthy carriers can be a source of acute new infections, which can contribute to the persistence of ASFV in swine populations. The estimates that we provide can be used for modelling of transmission in domestic pigs and, in part, for modelling transmission in wild boar.
(Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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