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Asfarviridae
African Swine Fever-Like Viruses | Asfivirus | African Swine Fever Like Viruses | Asfiviruses
A family of double-stranded DNA viruses containing one genus Asfivirus. It is the source of AFRICAN SWINE FEVER. |
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Medicine, African Traditional
African Medicine, Traditional | African Witch Doctor | Traditional Medicine, African | Witch Doctor, African | African Medicine | African Traditional Medicine | Medicine, African | Medicine, Traditional African | Traditional African Medicine
A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the African peoples. It includes treatment by medicinal plants and other materia medica as well as by the ministrations of diviners, medicine men, witch doctors, and sorcerers. |
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African Swine Fever
Swine Fever, African | Wart-Hog Disease | Wart Hog Disease | Wart-Hog Diseases
A sometimes fatal ASFIVIRUS infection of pigs, characterized by fever, cough, diarrhea, hemorrhagic lymph nodes, and edema of the gallbladder. It is transmitted between domestic swine by direct contact, ingestion of infected meat, or fomites, or mechanically by biting flies or soft ticks (genus Ornithodoros). |
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African Horse Sickness
Equine Plague | African Horsesickness | African Horse Sicknesses | African Horsesicknesses | Equine Plagues | Horse Sickness, African | Horse Sicknesses, African | Horsesickness, African | Horsesicknesses, African | Plague, Equine | Plagues, Equine
An insect-borne reovirus infection of horses, mules and donkeys in Africa and the Middle East; characterized by pulmonary edema, cardiac involvement, and edema of the head and neck. |
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Trypanosomiasis, African
African Sleeping Sickness | Nagana | African Trypanosomiasis | African Trypanosomiases | Sleeping Sickness, African | Trypanosomiases, African
A disease endemic among people and animals in Central Africa. It is caused by various species of trypanosomes, particularly T. gambiense and T. rhodesiense. Its second host is the tsetse fly. Involvement of the central nervous system produces "African sleeping sickness." Nagana is a rapidly fatal trypanosomiasis of horses and other animals. |
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African horse sickness virus
African Horsesickness Virus | African Horsesickness Viruses | Horsesickness Virus, African | Horsesickness Viruses, African
A species of ORBIVIRUS that causes disease in horses, mules, and donkeys.Via its principal vector CULICOIDES, it can also infect dogs, elephants, camels, cattle, sheep, goats, and, in special circumstances, humans. |
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Swine Vesicular Disease
Swine Vesicular Diseases | Vesicular Disease, Swine | Vesicular Diseases, Swine
An enterovirus infection of swine clinically indistinguishable from FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE, vesicular stomatitis, and VESICULAR EXANTHEMA OF SWINE. It is caused by a strain of HUMAN ENTEROVIRUS B. |
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Classical Swine Fever
Hog Cholera | Swine Fever | Swine Fever, Classical | Cholera, Hog
An acute, highly contagious disease affecting swine of all ages and caused by the CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VIRUS. It has a sudden onset with high morbidity and mortality. |
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Vesicular Exanthema of Swine
Swine Vesicular Exanthema | Swine Vesicular Exanthemas
A calicivirus infection of swine characterized by hydropic degeneration of the oral and cutaneous epithelia. |
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Swine Diseases
Disease, Swine | Diseases, Swine | Swine Disease
Diseases of domestic swine and of the wild boar of the genus Sus. |
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