Yuzi Luo, Lin Li, Sophia Austermann-Busch, Mei Dong, Jingjing Xu, Lina Shao, Jianlin Lei, Na Li, Wen-Rui He, Bibo Zhao, Su Li, Yongfeng Li, Lihong Liu, Paul Becher, Yuan Sun, Hua-Ji Qiu
Classical swine fever (CSF), caused by classical swine fever virus (CSFV), is a devastating disease of swine worldwide. Although a mandatory vaccination with the modified live vaccine C-strain has been implemented in China for decades, CSF remains a serious threat to the swine industry. To facilitate the control and eradication of CSF in China, the E2-based marker vaccine rAdV-SFV-E2, an adenovirus-delivered, alphavirus replicon-vectored vaccine, has been developed. Accordingly, an accompanying discriminatory test that allows differentiating infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA) is required...
September 15, 2015: Journal of Virological Methods