African Swine Fever: Epidemiology, the Design of New Diagnostic Methods, and Vaccine Development

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Development of Novel Diagnostic Methods of Classical Swine Fever

African swine fever . New developments

With regard to epizootiology, diseased pigs are the major source of direct infection, while indirect spread is mainly caused by pork pro­ ducts and mechanical vectors. Information about the role of virus car­ riers in transmission of the infection is insufficient, but the role of ticks (Ornithodorus genus) and of wild pigs as virus reservoirs is well docu­ mented. The incidence and distribution...

African Swine Fever

As it is well known, successful vaccination in many viral diseases was reached by classical empirical approaches: attenuated or inactivated virus-based vaccines, viral protein immunization, etc. However, previous attempts to develop vaccines against ASFV have not reached expectations and the reasons of several vaccination failures are unknown yet. Then, a deeper knowledge of basic virology ques...

African swine fever.

African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating haemorrhagic fever of pigs that causes up to 100% mortality, for which there is no vaccine. It is caused by a unique DNA virus that is maintained in an ancient cycle between warthogs and argasid ticks, making it the only known DNA arbovirus. ASF has a high potential for transboundary spread, and has twice been transported from Africa to other continent...