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Infections > Virus Diseases > Arbovirus Infections > African Swine Fever
Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Arbovirus Infections > African Swine Fever
Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Tick-Borne Diseases > African Swine Fever
Infections > Virus Diseases > DNA Virus Infections > African Swine Fever
Animal Diseases > Swine Diseases > African Swine Fever

Preferred term

African Swine Fever  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • African Swine Fever Virus Infection
  • Asfivirus Infection
  • Asfivirus Infections
  • Infection, Asfivirus
  • Infections, Asfivirus
  • Swine Fever, African
  • Wart Hog Disease
  • Wart-Hog Disease
  • Wart-Hog Diseases

Note

  • do not confuse with SWINE FEVER see CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER

Scope note

  • A sometimes fatal ASFIVIRUS infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. It is transmitted between domestic swine by direct contact, ingestion of infected meat, or fomites, or mechanically by biting flies or soft ticks (genus Ornithodoros).

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000357

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