ASFV and CSFV Flashcards
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What is Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV)?
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- Flaviviridae
- Flavi = yellow
- ssRNA: 12.3kb
- Single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus, enveloped
- Genus Pestivirus:
- BVDV, BDV, CSFV
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What is the history of CSFV?
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- 1833 - 1st reported in US “Hog cholera”
- 1960 - cost %50mil / year
- 1978 - US declared “hog cholera” free
- 17 year Federal-state eradication program
- 1997- Netherlands outbreak 12mill pigs dead
3
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What is the epidemiologic information for CSFV?
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- Natural host - swine
- Highly contagious - high morbidity and mortality
- 3 genotype (1, 2, 3) and subgenotypes
- high, moderate, and low virulence strains
- Severity of illness varies with viral isolate, age of pig, immune status, dose, health status
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How is CSFV transmitted?
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- Primarily oronasal transmission (direct or indirect contact)
- virus shed in oronasal and ocular seretions, urine, feces, blood
- genital and transplacental transmission also possible
- Spread readily by feeding uncooked swill from infected pigs
- transmissible through contaminated fomites
5
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how does the virulence of CSFV differ?
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- Acute and severe disease in naive herds
- highly virulent strains
- high mortality - can approach 100%
- death typically within 1-3 weeks
- Rapid recognition/diagnosis
- Subacute
- clinical signs less severe, prolonged time course, lower mortality
- Chronic disease:
- Seen with moderate or low virulence strains
- May be difficult to recognize/diagnose
- May only affect a few animals
- Clinical sings wax and wane for weeks to months
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What are the clinical signs of Acute CSFV in a naive herd?
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- High fever
- huddling
- weakness
- lethargy
- decreased appetite
- conjunctivitis
- constipation or diarrhea
- incoordination
- posterior paresis
- convulsions
- vomiting
- respiratory signs
- skin hyperemia, hemorrhage or cyanosis
- sever leukopenia
7
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What are the clinical signs of Chronic CSFV?
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- Decreased appetite
- depression
- fever
- leukopenia
- constipation or diarrhea
- wasting or poor growth
- skin lesions
8
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What are the overall Clinical signs of CSFV?
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Poor reproductive performance
- may be only sign in herds infected with less virulent strains
- Abortion, stillbirths, mummified, malformed, weak piglets
- Piglets may be born with congenital tremor
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Piglets may be born persistently infected
- Nonclinical at birth
- late-onset C/S - inappetence, depression, poor growth, dermatitis, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, ataxia, posterior paresis
9
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What lesions are associated with CSFV?
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- Highly variable
- Acute disease:
- Hemorrhage most common
- skin discolored purple, cyanosis of extremities
- lymph nodes swollen and hemorrhagic
- Petechial or ecchymotic hemorrhages on serosal and mucosal surface
- GI- hemorrhage, enteritis, button ulcers
- Fluid in peritoneum, thorax or pericardial sac
- Tonsilitis (+/- necrotic foci)
- Splenic infarcts
- Lungs - congestion and hemorrhage
- Encephalitis
- Kidney - Cortical petechiae and pale infarcts surrounded by hemorrhage
10
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How is CSFV diagnosed?
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- Virus detection
- PCR, sequencing, FA, ELISA, VI
- blood, tonsil or nasal swabs (live)
- Tonsils, lymph nodes, brain, spleen, kidneys, ileum (necropsy)
- Serology: FAVN, ELISA
- Ab develop 2-3 weeks post-infection, usually lifelong
- persistently infected piglets with be negative fo Ab
- Consider Cross-reactivity with ruminant pestiviruses
- BVDV and BDV occasionally infect pigs
11
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What are some differentials for suspected CSFV?
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- PDNS
- ASFV
- septicemic bacterial diseases (Salmonellosis, Erysipelas, acute Pasteurella
- Severe PRRSV
12
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How is CSFV controlled?
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- MLV vaccines
- reduce clinical signs, limit transmission
- Employed to reduce infections during eradication program
- Widely used in CSF-endemic countries
- Prohibited in CSF-free areas
- Not DIVA
- Biosecurity, movement restrictions, quarantine, surveillance
- CSFV generally labile in environment
- inactivated by disinfectants, drying, heat, UV
- remains infectious for months in meat
- inactivated by disinfectants, drying, heat, UV
13
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What are the characteristics of the African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV)?
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- Asfarviridae
- Genus Asfivirus (only member)
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Large complex dsDNA virus, enveloped
- 170-190 kb, >150 proteins
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Environmentally stable - resistant to pH and temperature
- can survive at room temp and in meat for months
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Large complex dsDNA virus, enveloped
- Soft ticks of the genus Ornithodoros can be involved n the infection cycle
- Only DNA virus classified as arthropod borne virus
14
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What is the history of ASFV?
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- Never been documented in the US
- Economically important
- Trade restrictions
- Reportable
- Since 2007- outbreaks in Caucus region, russia, and eastern Europe
- increased risk of spread
- August 2018 -
- China +12 Asian Countries
- Belgium, Slovakia, Serbia
- Sept 2020 - Germany
15
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What is ASFV?
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- Contagious hemorrhagic disease
- clinically indistinguishable from CSFV
- Occurs in domestic pigs and European wild boar
- all ages susceptible
