African Swine Fever roadmap:
Diagnostic Tests
Roadmap for the development of diagnostic tests for ASF
Download ASF Diagnostic Roadmap3
Detection of host response
Develop diagnostic indirect tests for the detection of the disease
Research Question
- The development of diagnostic tests able to reliably detect low titres of antibodies and of new assays based on cellular immunity for the detection of the disease
Research Gaps and Challenges
- Varying host immune response to the virus between both virus’ isolates and host species
- Testing of bad quality wild boar sera
- Laboratory capacities (variability of results among laboratories)
State Of the Art
- Knowledge was gained and collated on suitable antigens and their expression for serodiagnosis of ASF. Five serological methods were recently tested, including three commercial ELISAs, the OIE-ELISA, and the confirmatory immunoperoxidase test (IPT)
Projects
What activities are planned or underway?
African Swine Fever virus inactivation by feed additives in vitro
Planned Completion date 01/01/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands
The incursion risk of African swine fever for the Netherlands by human-mediated routes
Planned Completion date 01/01/2022
Source Countries:
Netherlands