Classical Swine Fever: A Truly Classical Swine Disease

摘要

Recent reemergence of classical swine fever (CSF) in previous CSF-free areas reminds the veterinary community of this old disease. At this difficult period, Pathogens has the timely honor to present a Special Issue on Classical Swine Fever collecting 14 publications. Readers can find that perhaps few swine diseases have such a comparable ancient history as CSF [1], and few have such a versatile capability in affecting so many body systems [1] via horizontal [2,3] as well as vertical [4,5] transmissions. And few have so many clinical forms expressed, ranging from acute to chronic, atypical to congenital, etc. [1,4].