Correction: Ex-ante impact of pest des petits ruminant control on micro and macro socioeconomic indicators in Senegal: A system dynamics modelling approach.

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Complete Genome Sequencing and Comparative Phylogenomics of Nine African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Isolates of the Virulent East African Genotype IX without Viral Sequence Enrichment.

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is endemic to African wild pigs ( and ), in which viral infection is asymptomatic, and soft ticks. However, ASFV causes a lethal disease in Eurasian domestic pigs (). While Sub-Saharan Africa is believed to be the original home of ASFV, publicly available whole-genome ASFV sequences show a strong bias towards p72 Genotypes I and II, which are responsible for domestic pig pandemics outside Africa.

Molecular Epidemiology of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus in West Africa: Is Lineage IV Replacing Lineage II in Burkina Faso?

This study aimed at investigating the genetic lineages of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) currently circulating in Burkina Faso. As part of PPR surveillance in 2021 and 2022, suspected outbreaks in different regions were investigated. A risk map was produced to determine high-risk areas for PPR transmission.

Transcriptome analysis reveals gene expression changes of pigs infected with non-lethal African swine fever virus.

African swine fever (ASF) is an important viral disease of swine caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV), which threatens swine production profoundly. To better understand the gene expression changes when pig infected with ASFV, RNA sequencing was performed to characterize differentially expressed genes (DEGs) of six tissues from Kenya domestic pigs and Landrace × Yorkshire (L/Y) pigs infected with ASFV Kenya1033 in vivo. As results, a total of 209, 522, 34, 505, 634 and 138 DEGs (q-value < 0.

Special Issue "African Swine Fever and Other Swine Viral Diseases in Africa".

African swine fever (ASF) has become the swine disease of most global concern since its second escape from Africa in 2007 resulted in its spread to five continents and the consequent devastation of industrial to subsistence pig farming [...