A DECADE OF LEARNING TO CONTROL CSF IN ENDEMIC AREAS

摘要

Classical swine fever (CSF) virus outbreaks were described for the first time in the 1830's in the United States. Since the isolation of the virus by Edward de Schweinitz and Marion Dorset in 1903, a large amount of scientific information related to the virus and the disease has been developed. Thus, nowadays the virus genome, the pamogenesis, clinical signs, and the epidemiology, including molecular epidemiology of the disease are well known. New diagnostic tools and excellent vaccines that protectthe animals are available. All these new developments on CSF have been presented in recent international meetings such as the OIE "Symposium on Classical Swine Fever (Hog Cholera)" held in Birmingham, UK in 1998, "Fiebre Porcina Clasica en las Americas"held in Puebla, Mexico in 1999 and, "Pestivirus Infection in Swine" held in Ames, Iowa, in 2000. But in spite of the increasing knowledge on CSF, the disease is still quite common in most of the developing countries and several developed countries have experienced outbreaks of the disease.