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Outbreak of African swine fever in South Korea, 2019.

Hyun Joo KimKi-Hyun ChoSoo-Kyoung LeeDa-Young KimJin-Ju NahHyun-Jeong KimHyo-Jin KimJi-Yong HwangHyun-Joo SohnJun-Gu ChoiHae-Eun KangYong-Joo Kim
Published in: Transboundary and emerging diseases (2020)
African swine fever, a fatal haemorrhagic disease of swine, was confirmed in domestic pigs for the first time in South Korea in September 2019. The causative virus belonged to the p72 genotype II and had an additional tandem repeat sequence in the intergenic region (IGR) between the I73R and I329L.
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