Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T05:25:33.078Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Isolation of African swine fever virus from ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex (Ixodoidea: Argasidae) collected within the African swine fever enzootic area of Malawi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. M. Haresnape ,
P. J. Wilkinson  and
P. S. Mellor
J. M. Haresnape
Affiliation:
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Lilongwe, Malawi
P. J. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 ONF, UK
P. S. Mellor
Affiliation:
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 ONF, UK
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex were collectedfrom domestic pig sties and dwelling houses, and from a warthog habitat, and tested for the presence of African swine fever (ASF) virus. Collections were made in 9 of the 24 districts of Malawi, these being primarily the districts in which O. moubata is most numerous. ASF virus was isolated from ticks collected in both domestic pig sties and houses in certain villages in Mchinji district where ASF outbreaks had recently occurred. Mchinji district is in the centre of a large ASF enzootic area which stretches into other districts of Malawi and also into Zambia and Mozambique. The high titre of virus in some of the ticks demonstrates that O. moubata can act as a virus reservoir and potential vector of disease in the field situation in Malawi.

Type
Special Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 101 , Issue 1 , August 1988 , pp. 173 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

References

REFERENCES

Anon (1962). The geographic distribution of the warthog and domestic pigs in Africa. Bulletin of Epizootic Diseases of Africa 10, 91–92.Google Scholar
Cox, B. F. & Hass, W. R. (1962). Note on an African swine fever investigation in Nyasaland. Bulletin of Epizootic Diseases of Africa 1,. 439–440.Google Scholar
DeTray, D. E. (1963). African swine fever. Ath'ances in Veterinary Science 8, 299–333.Google ScholarPubMed
Greig, A. (1972). The localization of African swine fever virus in the tick Ornithodoros, noubata porcinus. Archir fur die gesamle Virusforschureg 39. 240–247.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hammond, H. A. & Detray, D. E. (1955). A recent case of African swine fever in Kenya. East Africa. Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association 126. 389–391.Google ScholarPubMed
Haresnape, J. M. (1984). African swine fever in Malawi. Tropical Animal Health and Production 16, 123–125.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haresnape, J. M., Lungu, S. A. M. & Mamu, F. D. (1985). A four-year survey of African swine fever in Malawi. Journal of Hygiene 95, 309–323.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haresnape, J. M. & Mamu, F. D. (1986). The distribution of ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex (Ixodoidea Argasidae) in Malawi and its relation to African swine fever epizootiology. Journal of Hygiene 96, 535–544.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haresnape, H. M., Lungu, S. A. M. & Mamu, F. D. (1987). An updated survey of African swine fever in Malawi. Epidemiology and Infection 9,. 723–732.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heuschele, W. P. & Coggins, L. (1965). Studies on the transmission of African swine fever virus by arthropods. Proceedings of the United States Livestock, Sanitary Association 6, 94–100.Google Scholar
Heuschele, W. P. & Coggins, L. (1969). Epizootiology of African swine fever in warthogs. Bulletin of Epizootic Diseases of Africa 17, 179–183.Google ScholarPubMed
Hoogstraal, H. (1956). African Ixodidea. I. Ticks of the Sudan. United States Naval Medical Research Report N.M. 005.O5O.29.07, pp. 121–190.Google Scholar
Houagh, J. (1982). Mammals of Malawi, pp. 27, 30. Lilongwe: Environmental Unit, Department of National Parks and Wildlife.Google Scholar
Matson, B. A. (1960). An outbreak of African swine fever in Nyasaland. Bulletin of Epizootic Diseases of Africa 8, 305–308.Google Scholar
Montgomery, R. E. (1921). On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony). Journal of Comparative Pathology 34, 159–191 and 243–262.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Plowright, W. (1977 a). Vector transmission of African swine fever virus. In Hog Cholera/Classical Swine Fever and African Swine Fever. EEC publication EUR 5904 EN, pp. 575–587.Google Scholar
Plowright, W. (1977 b). African swine fever. In Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals, pp. 178–190. Ames. Iowa, USA: Iowa State University Press.Google Scholar
Plowright, W., Parker, J. & Peirce, M. A. (1969 a). African swine fever virus in ticks (Ornithodoros moubata. Murray) collected from animal burrows in Tanzania. Nature 221, 107 1–1073.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Plowright, W., Parker, J. & Peirce, M. A. (1969 b). The epizootiology of African swine fever in Africa. Veterinary Record 85, 668–674.Google Scholar
Plowright, W., Perry, C. T. & Greig, A. (1974). Sexual transmission of African swine fever virus in the tick Ornithodoros moubata porcinus, Walton. Research in Veterinary Science 17, 106–113.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Plowrrniit, W., Perry, C. T. & Peirce, M. A. (1970). Transovarial infection with African swine fever virus in the argasid tick, Ornithodoros moubata porcinus, Walton. Research in Veterinary Science 11, 582–584.Google Scholar
Plowright, W., Perry, C. T., Peirce, M. A. & Parker, J. (1970). Experimental infection of the argasid tick, Ornithodoros moubata porcinus, with African swine fever virus. Archiv für die gesamte Virusforschung 31, 33–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Scott, G. R. (1965). The virus of African swine fever and its transmission. Bulletin de l'offlce International des Epizooties 63, 645–677.Google ScholarPubMed
Steyn, D. G. (1932). East African virus disease in pigs. Eighteenth Report by the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry, vol. 1, pp. 99–109. Onderstepoort (South Africa).Google Scholar
Thomas, A. D. & Kolbe, F. F. (1942). The wild pigs of South Africa: Their distribution and habits, and their significance as agricultural pests and carriers of disease. Journal of the South African Veterinary Medical Association 13, 1–11.Google Scholar
Thomson, O., Galnaru, M., Lewis, A., Bigas, H., Neville, E., Van Dee Pypekamp, H., Gerber, L., Esterhuysen, J., Bengis, R., Bezuideniiout, D. & Condv, J. (1983). The relationship between African swine fever virus, the warthog and Ornithodoros species in South Africa. In African Swine Fever, CEC/FAO Research Seminar, Sardinia, 1981 (ed. Wilkinson, P. J.). pp. 85–100. CEC Publication EUR 8466 EN.Google Scholar
Walton, G. A. (1964). The Ornithodoros moubata group of ticks in Africa. Control problems and implications. Journal of Medical Entomology 1, 43–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkinson, P. J., Donaldson, A. I., Greig, A. & Bruce, W. (1977). Transmission studies with African swine fever virus. Infection of pigs by airborne virus. Journal of Comparative Pathology 87, 475–495.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wilkinson, P. J. (1984). The persistence of African swine fever in Africa and the Mediterranean. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2, 71–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar