The Role of Wild Pigs in the Epidemiology of African Swine Fever

Autor:	C. J. Maré
Rok vydání:	1976
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study African swine fever biology Population Zoology Disease Tick biology.organism_classification African swine fever virus Virus parasitic diseases Epidemiology medicine education Ornithodoros
Zdroj:	Wildlife Diseases ISBN: 9781475716580
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-4757-1656-6_28
Popis:	The disease African swine fever is briefly described with emphasis on the evolution of the disease. The role of wild pigs, especially the warthog (Phacocoerus aethiopicus) in the maintenance of the disease in nature is explored and the importance of ticks of the genus Ornithodoros in the natural cycle of the virus is emphasized. The fact that the virus can be maintained in a tick population without the intervention of vertebrate hosts leads the author to propose that the African swine fever virus may in fact be an arthropod virus which only accidentally infects wild and domestic pigs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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