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MeSH Heading: African Swine Fever
Tree Number(s): C01.920.930.125; C01.925.081.078; C01.925.256.142; C22.905.072
Unique ID: D000357
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000357
Annotation: do not confuse with SWINE FEVER see CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER
Scope Note: A sometimes fatal ASFIVIRUS infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. It is transmitted between domestic swine by direct contact, ingestion of infected meat, or fomites, or mechanically by biting flies or soft ticks (genus Ornithodoros).
Entry Term(s): African Swine Fever Virus Infection; Asfivirus Infection; Swine Fever, African; Wart-Hog Disease
Previous Indexing: Swine Diseases (1966-1969); Virus Diseases (1966-1969)
Public MeSH Note: 70
History Note: 70
Date Established: 1970/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/10

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0000545
Scope Note: A sometimes fatal ASFIVIRUS infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. It is transmitted between domestic swine by direct contact, ingestion of infected meat, or fomites, or mechanically by biting flies or soft ticks (genus Ornithodoros).
Terms: African Swine Fever Preferred Term
Term UI T001143
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1970); African Swine Fever Virus Infection
Term UI T000910484
Date10/24/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Wart-Hog Disease
Term UI T001144
Date01/27/1992
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1993); Swine Fever, African
Term UI T443758
Date04/20/2001
LexicalTag EPO
ThesaurusID NLM (2002); Asfivirus Infection
Term UI T000910483
Date10/24/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018)

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