The persistence of African swine fever virus in field-infected Ornithodoros erraticus during the ASF endemic period in Portugal.

African swine fever (ASF) is an important disease of pigs and outbreaks of ASF have occurred in Europe on multiple occasions. To explore the period for which the European soft tick species Ornithodoros erraticus (Acari: Argasidae) is able to act as a reservoir of African swine fever virus (ASFV) aft...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fernando S Boinas, Anthony J Wilson, Geoff H Hutchings, Carlos Martins, Linda J Dixon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020383&type=printable
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!