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. 2020 Mar;67(2):473-475.
doi: 10.1111/tbed.13483. Epub 2020 Jan 28.

Outbreak of African swine fever in South Korea, 2019

Hyun-Joo Kim  1 , Ki-Hyun Cho  1 , Soo-Kyoung Lee  1 , Da-Young Kim  1 , Jin-Ju Nah  1 , Hyun-Jeong Kim  1 , Hyo-Jin Kim  1 , Ji-Yong Hwang  1 , Hyun-Joo Sohn  1 , Jun-Gu Choi  1 , Hae-Eun Kang  1 , Yong-Joo Kim  1
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Outbreak of African swine fever in South Korea, 2019

Hyun-Joo Kim et al. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 Mar.

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.

Keywords: African swine fever; South Korea; outbreak.

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