Dr. Douglas Glaude at the USDA Plum Island Laboratory has announced that a cell line has been developed that can isolate and detect the presence of African swine fever virus allowing diagnoses from tissue derived from dead animals.
Research leading to the development of the cell line was funded through an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Energy and the USDA.
African swine fever is prevalent in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia and ia yet there is no vaccine available to control the infection.
