No Experimental Evidence of Co-Feeding Transmission of African Swine Fever Virus between <i>Ornithodoros</i> Soft Ticks
2020
Pereira De Oliveira, Rémi | Hutet, Evelyne | Duhayon, Maxime | Paboeuf, Frédéric | Le Potier, Marie-Frédérique | Vial, Laurence
<i>Ornithodoros</i> soft ticks are the only known vector and reservoir of the African swine fever virus, a major lethal infectious disease of <i>Suidae</i>. The co-feeding event for virus transmission and maintenance among soft tick populations has been poorly documented. We infected <i>Ornithodoros moubata</i>, a known tick vector in Africa, with an African swine fever virus strain originated in Africa, to test its ability to infect <i>O. moubata</i> through co-feeding on domestic pigs. In our experimental conditions, tick-to-tick virus transmission through co-feeding failed, although pigs became infected through the infectious tick bite.
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