Abstract
On 7 March 2019, African swine fever in a domestic pig farm was detected in Guangxi Province of China. The phylogenetic analysis showed that its causative strain contained two tandem repeat sequence insertions in the intergenic region between the I73R and the I329L genes, and was different from previously reported strains in China and other countries.
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This study was supported by the National Project for Prevention and Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (Grant Nos. 2017YFD0501800 and 2017YFD0502300), the National Key Research and Development Program for the 13th Five-Year Plan, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, China.
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XW and ZW designed the study. SG, YL, QW, and WR performed the experiments and analyzed the data together with LL, JL, and JB. SG and YL wrote the initial draft of the manuscript and revised the manuscript together with JL, XW and ZW.
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Ge, S., Liu, Y., Li, L. et al. An extra insertion of tandem repeat sequence in African swine fever virus, China, 2019. Virus Genes 55, 843–847 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-019-01704-9
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