Outbreak of African swine fever in South Korea, 2019

Hyun‐Joo Kim, Ki‐Hyun Cho, Soo‐Kyoung Lee, Da‐Young Kim, Jin‐Ju Nah, Hyun‐Jeong Kim, Hyojin Kim, Hyun‐Joo Sohn, Jun‐Gu Choi, Hae‐Eun Kang,

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases · 2020 · 94 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

African swine fever, a fatal haemorrhagic disease of swine, was confirmed in domestic pigs for the first time in South Korea in September 2019. The causative virus belonged to the p72 genotype II and had an additional tandem repeat sequence in the intergenic region (IGR) between the I73R and I329L.

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