Introduction of African Swine Fever into the European Union through Illegal Importation of Pork and Pork Products

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Costard, Solenne ^a,f   Jones, Bryony Anne ^a   Martínez López, Beatriz ^b,d   Mur, Lina ^b   de la Torre, Ana ^c   Martínez, Marta ^b,c   Sánchez Vizcaíno, Fernando ^b   Sánchez Vizcaíno, Jose Manuel ^b   Pfeiffer, Dirk Udo ^a   Wieland, Barbara ^a,e  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^e SWISS AGENCY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION   (Switzerland)

^f EpiX Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BULGARIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GREECE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ILLEGAL IMPORTATION; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; MEAT; POLAND; PORTUGAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROMANIA; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SPAIN; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; EUROPE; FOOD INDUSTRY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWINE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD INDUSTRY; MEAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWINE;

EID: 84876187583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061104     Document Type: Article

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