Detection of African swine fever virus in pork products brought to Taiwan by travellers

Wen-Hung Wang; Chih-Yen Lin; Max R Chang Ishcol; Aspiro Nayim Urbina; Wanchai Assavalapsakul; Arunee Thitithanyanont; Po-Liang Lu; Yen-Hsu Chen; Sheng-Fan Wang

doi:10.1080/22221751.2019.1636615

Detection of African swine fever virus in pork products brought to Taiwan by travellers

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2019;8(1):1000-1002. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1636615.

Authors

Wen-Hung Wang^{1

2}, Chih-Yen Lin^{2

3}, Max R Chang Ishcol⁴, Aspiro Nayim Urbina⁴, Wanchai Assavalapsakul⁵, Arunee Thitithanyanont⁶, Po-Liang Lu¹, Yen-Hsu Chen^{1

2}, Sheng-Fan Wang^{2

3

7}

Affiliations

¹ a Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine , Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University , Kaohsiung , Taiwan.
² b Center for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease , Kaohsiung Medical University , Kaohsiung , Taiwan.
³ c Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology , Kaohsiung Medical University , Kaohsiung , Taiwan.
⁴ d Program in Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine , Kaohsiung Medical University , Kaohsiung City , Taiwan.
⁵ e Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science , Chulalongkorn University , Bangkok , Thailand.
⁶ f Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science , Mahidol University , Bangkok , Thailand.
⁷ g Department of Medical Research , Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital , Kaohsiung , Taiwan.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

African Swine Fever Virus / classification
African Swine Fever Virus / genetics
African Swine Fever Virus / isolation & purification*
Animals
China
Classical Swine Fever / transmission
Classical Swine Fever / virology*
Humans
Meat Products / virology*
Pork Meat / virology*
Swine
Taiwan
Travel

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the grant from the Center for Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Research, Kaohsiung Medical University (KMUTC108B03), grant from Higher Education Sprout Project - Ministry of Education, Taiwan(TB0357) and grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (108-2918-I-037-001 & 107-2923-B-005 -005 -MY3); Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University.