1. Surveillance of classical swine fever in wild boar in South Korea from 2010–2014
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Yong Kwan Kim, Yoon-Young Cho, Seong-In Lim, Jae-Jo Kim, Dong-Jun An, Sung-Hyun Choi, Jae-Young Song, In-Soo Cho, Eun-Hye Park, Bang-Hun Hyun, and Seung-Hoe Kim
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Veterinary medicine ,endocrine system ,Swine ,Sus scrofa ,Virus Neutralization ,Wildlife Science ,Antibodies, Viral ,classical swine fever virus ,Virus ,Border disease virus ,Classical Swine Fever ,Wild boar ,biology.animal ,Republic of Korea ,Animals ,Phylogeny ,Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral ,General Veterinary ,biology ,urogenital system ,biology.organism_classification ,Note ,Virology ,Antibodies, Neutralizing ,bovine viral diarrhea virus ,Classical swine fever ,Viral disease ,wild boar - Abstract
Classical swine fever (CSF) is a highly contagious systemic hemorrhagic viral disease of pigs. Wild boar plays a crucial role in the epidemiology of CSF. Between 2010 and 2014, samples were collected nationwide from 6,654 wild boars hunted in South Korea. Anti-CSF antibodies were identified in 0.59% (39 of 6,654) of the wild boar samples using a virus neutralization test and were primarily detected in wild boars living close to the demilitarized zone and the area of the Taebaek Mountains surroundings. The CSF virus (subgroup 2.1b) was isolated from two wild boars captured in a nearby border area. The criteria used to define high-risk areas for targeted CSF surveillance in South Korea should be further expanded to include other regions nationwide.
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- 2015