African swine fever virus DNA in soft ticks, Senegal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1928-1931

  Vial, Laurence ^a   Wieland, Barbara ^b   Jori, Ferran ^a,c   Etter, Eric ^a,d   Dixon, Linda ^e   Roger, François ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DNA VIRUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SENEGAL; SWINE DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TICK; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 37049032593     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1312.071022     Document Type: Article

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