African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease of domestic pigs and wild boar that causes a haemorrhagic fever-like illness with exceptionally high lethality (Penrith & Vosloo, 2009). The causative agent is a large enveloped DNA virus of the Asfarviridae family, genus Asfivirus. Its large genome, with a size between 170 and 190 kbp-depending on the strain, encodes more than
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