Wild boar harbouring African swine fever virus in the demilitarized zone in South Korea, 2019

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Mar 17;9(1):628-630. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1738904. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

The African swine fever virus (ASFV) was first detected in wild boar in the Demilitarized Zone, a bordered area between South and North Korea, on 2 October 2019. Phylogenetic analyses of ASFV genes encoding p72 and CD2v indicated that the causative strain belongs to genotype II and serogroup 8, respectively, and contained additional tandem repeat sequences between the I73R and the I329L protein genes.

Keywords: African swine fever virus; South Korea; demilitarized zone; genotype II; wild boar.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • African Swine Fever* / diagnosis
  • African Swine Fever* / epidemiology
  • Animals
  • Asfarviridae / genetics*
  • Phylogeny
  • Republic of Korea
  • Sus scrofa
  • Swine

Grants and funding

This study was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) [grant number NIER-2019-01-01-006], Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea.