Suitability of faeces and tissue samples as a basis for non-invasive sampling for African swine fever in wild boar

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 449-454

  de Carvalho Ferreira, H C ^a,b   Weesendorp, E ^a   Quak, S ^a   Stegeman, J A ^b   Loeffen, W L A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

African swine fever virus; Faeces; Monitoring; PCR; Tissues

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DOMESTIC PIG; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STABILITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SPLEEN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS EXCRETION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILD BOAR;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; FAECES; MONITORING; PCR; TISSUES;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMALS; BODY FLUIDS; FECES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUS SCROFA; SWINE;

EID: 84904757325     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.06.016     Document Type: Article

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