Addressing the dual emerging threats of African Swine Fever and Lumpy Skin Disease in Europe (DEFEND)

Project Information

DEFEND

Grant agreement ID: 773701

DOI 10.3030/773701

Project closed

EC signature date 8 May 2018

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 30 November 2023

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost € 5 992 500,00

EU contribution € 5 599 999,50

Coordinated by

THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE LBG
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Publication on literature review and risk factor analysis
Guidelines to implement compartmentalization for ASF in the European context
Report of fieldwork experiences, including maps, routes, types of transboundary movements, risk factors

Report of fieldwork experiences including maps routes types of transboundary movements risk factors

Report on LSDV transmission using in vitro and in vivo infected vectors
Methodological report on the implementation techniques of fieldwork activities in a comparative perspective
Dissemination and communications tools (poster, webpage, factsheet)
Methodology to estimate ASF prevalence in wild boar in endemic and epidemic areas
GWAS results

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Madin-Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells are a suitable cell line for the propagation and study of the bovine poxvirus lumpy skin disease virus

Author(s): Petra C. Fay, Charlotte G. Cook, Najith Wijesiriwardana, Gessica Tore, Loic Comtet, Alix Carpentier, Barbara Shih, Graham Freimanis, Ismar R. Haga, Philippa M. Beard
Published in: Journal of Virological Methods, Issue 285, 2020, Page(s) 113943, ISSN 0166-0934
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.113943

Semi-quantitative risk assessment of African swine fever virus introduction in pig farms

Author(s): Annalisa Scollo; Francesco Valentini; Giorgio Franceschini; Alessia Rusinà; Stefania Calò; Veronica Cappa; Alessandro Bellato; Alessandro Mannelli; Giovanni Loris Alborali; Silvia Bellini
Published in: Front. Vet. Sci., 27 January 2023, Sec. Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2297-1769
Publisher: Frontiers in Veterinary Science
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1017001

Complete genome reconstruction of the global and European regional dispersal history of the lumpy skin disease virus

Author(s): Steven Van Borm; Simon Dellicour; Darren P. Martin; Philippe Lemey; Eirini I. Agianniotaki; Eleni D. Chondrokouki; Dejan Vidanovic; Nikola Vaskovic; Tamaš Petroviċ; Sava Laziċ; Xhelil Koleci; Ani Vodica; Igor Djadjovski; Kiril Krstevski; Frank Vandenbussche; Andy Haegeman; Kris De Clercq; Elisabeth Mathijs
Published in: Journal of Virology, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 1098-5514
Publisher: ASM
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01394-23

Mathematical Approach to Estimating the Main Epidemiological Parameters of African Swine Fever in Wild Boar

Author(s): Federica Loi, Stefano Cappai, Alberto Laddomada, Francesco Feliziani, Annalisa Oggiano, Giulia Franzoni, Sandro Rolesu, Vittorio Guberti
Published in: Vaccines, Issue 8/3, 2020, Page(s) 521, ISSN 2076-393X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines8030521

Potential link of single nucleotide polymorphisms to virulence of vaccine‐associated field strains of lumpy skin disease virus in South Africa

Author(s): Antoinette Schalkwyk, Pravesh Kara, Karen Ebersohn, Arshad Mather, Cornelius Henry Annandale, Estelle Hildegard Venter, David Brian Wallace
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Issue 67/6, 2020, Page(s) 2946-2960, ISSN 1865-1674
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13670

A Review of Environmental Risk Factors for African Swine Fever in European Wild Boar.

Author(s): Hannes Bergmann; Katja Schulz; Franz Josef Conraths; Carola Sauter-Louis
Published in: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 2692, ISSN 2076-2615
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ani11092692

A Review of Risk Factors of African Swine Fever Incursion in Pig Farming within the European Union Scenario

Author(s): Silvia Bellini, Gabriele Casadei, Giorgia De Lorenzi, Marco Tamba
Published in: Pathogens, Issue 10/1, 2021, Page(s) 84, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10010084

Identification of Risk Factors for African Swine Fever: A Systematic Review

Author(s): Hannes Bergmann; Johanna Dups-Bergmann; Katja Schulz; Carolina Probst; Laura Zani; Melina Fischer; Jörn Gethmann; Nicolai Denzin; Sandra Blome; Franz J. Conraths; Carola Sauter-Louis
Published in: Viruses; Volume 14; Issue 10; Pages: 2107, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 2107, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v14102107

Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses after Immunisation with Low Virulent African Swine Fever Virus in the Large White Inbred Babraham Line and Outbred Domestic Pigs

Author(s): Lynnette C. Goatley †,Rachel H. Nash †,Catherine Andrews,Zoe Hargreaves,Priscilla TngORCID,Ana Luisa ReisORCID,Simon P. GrahamORCID andChristopher L. Netherton *ORCID
Published in: "Special Issue ""African Swine Fever Virus 2.0""", 2022, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v14071487

Remote Sensing Provides a Rapid Epidemiological Context for the Control of African Swine Fever in Germany

Author(s): Hannes Bergmann, Eva-Maria Czaja, Annett Frick, Ulf Klaaß, Ronny Marquart, Annett Rudovsky, Diana Holland, Patrick Wysocki, Daike Lehnau, Ronald Schröder, Lisa Rogoll, Carola Sauter-Louis, Timo Homeier-Bachmann
Published in: Sensors, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23198202

R0 Estimation for the African Swine Fever Epidemics in Wild Boar of Czech Republic and Belgium

Author(s): Andrea Marcon, Annick Linden, Petr Satran, Vincenzo Gervasi, Alain Licoppe, Vittorio Guberti
Published in: Veterinary Sciences, Issue 7/1, 2020, Page(s) 2, ISSN 2306-7381
Publisher: Veterinary Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci7010002

Estimating the Directional Spread of Epidemics in Their Early Stages Using a Simple Regression Approach: A Study on African Swine Fever in Northern Italy

Author(s): Vincenzo Gervasi; Marco Sordilli; Federica Loi; Vittorio Guberti
Published in: Pathogens; Volume 12; Issue 6; Pages: 812, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12060812

The diffusion metrics of African swine fever in wild boar

Author(s): Hartmut H. K. Lentz; Hannes Bergmann; Franz J. Conraths; Jana Schulz; Carola Sauter-Louis
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42300-0

The immune response to lumpy skin disease virus in cattle is influenced by inoculation route

Author(s): Petra C. Fay, Najith Wijesiriwardana, Henry Munyanduki, Beatriz Sanz-Bernardo, Isabel Lewis, Ismar R. Haga, Katy Moffat, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, Jayne Hope, Simon P. Graham and Philippa M. Beard
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, Issue 2022 Volume 13, 2022, Page(s) 1051008, ISSN 1664-3224
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1051008

A robust, cost-effective and widely applicable whole-genome sequencing protocol for capripoxviruses

Author(s): Elisabeth Mathijs; Andy Haegeman; Kris De Clercq; Steven Van Borm; Frank Vandenbussche
Published in: Journal of Virological Methods, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 114464, ISSN 0166-0934
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2022.114464

Evaluation of the Efficiency of Active and Passive Surveillance in the Detection of African Swine Fever in Wild Boar

Author(s): Vincenzo Gervasi, Andrea Marcon, Silvia Bellini, Vittorio Guberti
Published in: Veterinary Sciences, Issue 7/1, 2020, Page(s) 5, ISSN 2306-7381
Publisher: Veterinary Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci7010005

Evidence of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus Transmission from Subclinically Infected Cattle by Stomoxys calcitrans

Author(s): Andy Haegeman; Charlotte Sohier; Laurent Mostin; Ilse De Leeuw; Willem Van Campe; Wannes Philips; Nick De Regge; Kris De Clercq
Published in: Viruses; Volume 15; Issue 6; Pages: 1285, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/v15061285

Combining hunting and intensive carcass removal to eradicate African swine fever from wild boar populations

Author(s): Vincenzo Gervasi; Vittorio Guberti
Published in: Crossref, Issue 10, 2022, Page(s) 105633, ISSN 0167-5877
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105633

African swine fever endemic persistence in wild boar populations: Key mechanisms explored through modelling

Author(s): Gervasi V., Guberti V.
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Issue 2021; Volume 68, Issue 5 p. 2812-2825, 2021, ISSN 1865-1682
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14194

Estimating the risk of environmental contamination by forest users in African Swine Fever endemic areas

Author(s): Gervasi V., Marcon A., Guberti V.
Published in: Acta Veterinaria Scandinava, Issue 64, Article number: 16 (2022) , 2022, ISSN 1751-0147
Publisher: Pubmed
DOI: 10.1186/s13028-022-00636-z

Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessment of African Swine Fever Virus Introduction in Outdoor Pig Farms

Author(s): Alessia Rusinà; Francesco Valentini; Annalisa Scollo; Giorgio Franceschini; Sara Salvato; Veronica Cappa; Alessandro Bellato; Alessandro Mannelli; Silvia Bellini
Published in: Pathogens; Volume 12; Issue 5; Pages: 709, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12050709

Review: Vaccines and Vaccination against Lumpy Skin Disease

Author(s): Eeva Tuppurainen, Klaas Dietze, Janika Wolff, Hannes Bergmann, Daniel Beltran-Alcrudo, Anna Fahrion, Charles Euloge Lamien, Frank Busch, Carola Sauter-Louis, Franz J. Conraths, Kris De Clercq, Bernd Hoffmann and Sascha Knauf
Published in: Vaccines, Issue 2021, 9(10), 1136, 2021, Page(s) 1136, ISSN 2076-393X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9101136

A field study evaluating the humoral immune response in Mongolian sheep vaccinated against sheeppox virus

Author(s): Petra Fay, Georgina Limon, Gerelmaa Ulziibat, Buyantogtokh Khanui, Odonchimeg Myagmarsuren, Gessica Tore, Bodisaikhan Khishgee, John Flannery, Batkhuyag Sandag, Batchuluun Damdinjav, Philippa M. Beard
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021, ISSN 1865-1674
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14163

Book chapters (1)

African swine fever vaccines

Author(s): Netherton, Christopher L.
Published in: Viruses, 2021, Page(s) Pages: 161–182, ISBN 9789086869107
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-910-7_6

Conference proceedings (1)

Host variation in susceptibility to lumpy skin disease: gene expression analyses of experimentally infected cows.

Author(s): Van Borm, S., Klingström, T., Niazi, A., De Clercq, K., Mostin, L., Haegeman, A., De Koning, D.J.
Published in: Proceeding of the World Conference of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, 2023, Page(s) 668 - 671, ISBN 978-90-8686-940-4
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_154