Genetic Variation among African Swine Fever Genotype II Viruses, Eastern and Central Europe
Carmina Gallardo
, Jovita Fernández-Pinero, Virginia Pelayo, Ismail Gazaev, Iwona Markowska-Daniel, Gediminas Pridotkas, Raquel Nieto, Paloma Fernández-Pacheco, Svetlana Bokhan, Oleg Nevolko, Zhanna Drozhzhe, Covadonga Pérez, Alejandro Soler, Denis Kolvasov, and Marisa Arias
Author affiliations: Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), Madrid, Spain (C. Gallardo, J. Fernández-Pinero, V. Pelayo, R. Nieto, P. Fernández-Pacheco, C. Pérez, A. Soler, M. Arias); National Institute of Veterinary Virology and Microbiology, Pokrov, Russia (I. Gazaev, D. Kolvasov); National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland (I. Markowska-Daniel); National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania (G. Pridotkas); Belarusian State Veterinary Centre, Minsk, Belarus (S. Bokhan); State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostic and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise, Kiev, Ukraine (O. Nevolko, Z. Drozhzhe)
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Figure 1. Locations of 4 cases of African swine fever in wild boars in the European Union countries of Poland and Lithuania and location of a 2013 outbreak among domestic pigs in Belarus, an eastern European country that shares a border with Poland and Lithuania. Inset map shows location (square) of countries in the larger map within the larger surrounding area.
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