Advances in surveillance and diagnostic techniques for tracking the spread of African swine fever

Publication date: 03/11/2023
Extent: 14 pages

Contributions by: Sandra Blome, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health – Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Germany

Chapter synopsis:

African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most important viral diseases of domestic and wild suids. Over the last 15 years, ASF has gone truly pandemic and with that, fast, reliable, but also pragmatic diagnostic approaches are needed for early detection and surveillance. In the following chapter, three main points will be discussed that go beyond the well-established routine diagnostic techniques that are quite well-developed and described for ASF: a) the use of alternative sample matrices for ASF diagnosis in domestic and wild pigs, b) recent developments in pen-side diagnostics in a broader sense, and c) possibilities and recent advances for genomic epidemiology (especially in areas with occurrence of local variants).

DOI: 10.19103/9781786768629.02