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. 2022 Oct 5:13:1011891.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1011891. eCollection 2022.

African swine fever virus: A re-emerging threat to the swine industry and food security in the Americas

Julian Ruiz-Saenz  1 , Andres Diaz  2 , D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana  3 , Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales  3   4 , Marlen Martinez-Gutierrez  5 , Patricia V Aguilar  6   7
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African swine fever virus: A re-emerging threat to the swine industry and food security in the Americas

Julian Ruiz-Saenz et al. Front Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: African swine fever; Arbovirus; emerging disease; pigs; reservoirs.

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Conflict of interest statement

Author AD is employed by Pig Improvement Company. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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ASFV transmission known and gaps in the Americas. Red arrows represent potential routes for ASFV transmission. Blue shape: Human movement with contaminated fomites or contaminated pork represent the major risk for naive populations. Yellow shape: The potential role of wild Boars and Ornithodoros tick vectors still to be determined in the Americas. Orange shape: Virus transmission in pig farms has been confirmed in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. See text for references.
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