African Swine Fever Flashcards
(18 cards)
How contagious is ASF?
Very contagious
What species ASF affects?
Wild boars
Domestic pigs
Wild African suids
Soft ticks
What are the three transmission ways?
Direct contact
Indirect contact
Within a tick vector
How does direct contact work?
There the virus is transmitted from the sick animal to a healthy animal
How does indirect contact happen?
Via feeding
Via garbage containing infected meat
Biological way
- soft ticks
How does it work when ASF transmits within a vector?
When the virus ends up in blood sucking insects where they multiply
Ornithodoros sp.
What family does ASF belong to?
Asfarviridae
What genus does ASF belong to?
Asfivirus
Which species are affected and which ones act as hosts?
The virus causes high mortality rates in pigs, but persistently infects its natural hosts, warthogs, bushpigs, and soft ticks of the Ornithodoros genus, with no disease signs.
How big is the virus?
It’s medium sized
Is the virus highly resistant to low or high temperatures?
Very resistant to low temperatures
During 70minutes the virus is destroyed in +____ C
During 20minutes the virus is destroyed in +____ C
+56C /70mins
+60 /20mins
During __minutes the virus is destroyed in + 56 C
During __minutes the virus is destroyed in + 60 C
70mins in +56C
20mins in +60C
What is ASF susceptible to?
Ether
Chloroform
ASF virus remains viable for _____ periods of time
Long
ASF virus remains viable in
_______, _______ and ________
And especially in…
_________, __________ and __________
Blood
Feces
Tissues
Uncooked, undercooked and infected meat
What do ASF virions consist of?
An envelope
A capsid
A core
A nucleoprotein complex
What kind is the genome?
Double stranded DNA
