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African Swine Fever Vaccine Development: Current Status And Challenges Ahead, Sezim Monoldorova, Galina Koltsova, Ilya Titov, Inkyu Yoo, Andrey Gogin, Jonguk Jeong, Hyeon-Seop Byeon, Seungri Yun, Yunhee Chang, Shin-Seok Kang, Denis Kolbasov, Bo-Young Jeon
African Swine Fever Vaccine Development: Current Status And Challenges Ahead, Sezim Monoldorova, Galina Koltsova, Ilya Titov, Inkyu Yoo, Andrey Gogin, Jonguk Jeong, Hyeon-Seop Byeon, Seungri Yun, Yunhee Chang, Shin-Seok Kang, Denis Kolbasov, Bo-Young Jeon
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious, hemorrhagic and highly lethal viral disease in swine. Following the initial report of ASF in Kenya in 1921 it spread to East Asia through Western Europe and Russia (including Eastern Europe). Many efforts have been dedicated to controlling ASF but the struggle to eradicate this disease continues. Thus far, the efforts to develop an effective vaccine to control ASF have been unsuccessful. A previous inactivated ASF vaccine, developed by traditional methods, failed to protect pigs from ASF virus (ASFV) infection. Neutralizing antibodies were not effective in inducing protective immunity and it appears that …