classical swine fever


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classical swine fever

n.
A highly infectious, often fatal viral disease of swine, characterized by fever, loss of appetite, and diarrhea. It occurs worldwide. Also called hog cholera.
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Postel is a veterinarian and head of the Laboratory for Molecular Biology of the European Union and OIE Reference Laboratory for Classical Swine Fever at the Institute of Virology of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany.
Patterns of gene expression in swine macrophages infected with classical swine fever virus detected by microarray.
Himmvac Hog Cholera (T/C) Vaccine by Panav Bio-Tech is the vaccine that is made using Bovine Kidney Cell culture and provides protection against the Hog cholera or classical swine fever. The vaccine is manufactured by KBNP, INC.
Wang et al., "Pigs immunized with a novel E2 subunit vaccine are protected from subgenotype heterologous classical swine fever virus challenge," BMC Veterinary Research, vol.
BPEX international manager Peter Hardwick said: "After 1998 exports fell quite dramatically and then, in 2000, we had an outbreak of classical swine fever, followed the next year by foot and mouth disease.
The EU's member states endorsed, on 7 September, a European Commission proposal to repeal the protection measures adopted after outbreaks of classical swine fever (CSF) in June and July in Lithuania.
The United States also agreed to publish a proposed rule by April 16, 2010, to recognize the State of Santa Catarina as free of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, classical swine fever, African swine fever, and swine vesicular disease, based on World Organization for Animal Health guidelines and to complete a risk evaluation that is currently underway and identify appropriate risk mitigation measures to determine whether fresh beef can be imported from Brazil while preventing the introduction of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States.
--The relevant and diagnostic lesions reported in organs like spleen, lymphoid tissue, large intestine, kidneys and central nervous system are very typical of a disease called Classical Swine Fever. African swine fever was not considered because it has not been diagnosed in Venezuela according to the literature, neither bacterial due to the pattern of lesion and lack of bacterial colonies in histological evaluation.
The idea of sharing the costs of disease control was first discussed after the 2000 Classical Swine Fever (CSF) outbreak and intensified after the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak, which cost the Treasury nearly pounds 3bn.
Outbreaks of classical swine fever have been reported at two pig farms in North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany, a region where the disease had been known to occur in wild boar.

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