Sonia Pina-Pedrero

TL;DR: Inoculation of pigs with the deletion mutant virus BA71ΔCD2 protected pigs not only against experimental challenge with BA71, the virulent parental strain, but also against heterologous viruses, including Georgia 2007/1, the genotype II strain of ASFV currently circulating in Eastern Europe.

TL;DR: DNA vaccination results have generated new expectations, confirming the key role of T-cell responses in protection and the existence of multiple ASFV antigens with protective potential, more of which are currently being identified.

TL;DR: A new and improved PCR designed to detect a different domain of the vtaA genes, the leader sequence (LS) as a diagnostic tool to predict virulence, LS-PCR, is a robust test for the prediction of the virulence potential of H. parasuis strains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used BA71∆CD2 as a tool trying to understand ASFV cross-protection, using phylogenetically distant strains, and found that crossprotection is a multifactorial phenomenon that not only depends on sequence similarity.

TL;DR: The results indicate that feeding SDPP in diets for pigs does not represent a risk of transmitting HEV, even though HEV genome may be detected in SDPp.