“…Nine distinct seroimmunological groups (seroimmunotypes) have been identified to date (the reference strains are shown in parentheses): I (Lisbon‐57), II (Congo‐49), III (Mozambique‐78), IV (France‐32), V (TSP‐80), VI (TS‐7), VII (Uganda), VIII (Rhodesia and Stavropol 2008), and IX (Davis). All Russian ASFVs isolated since 2007 were identified as the seroimmunotype VIII, whereas the European viruses represent the seroimmunotype I or IV (Balyshev et al., , , , ; Sereda and Balyshev, ; Vlasova et al., ). As the current genotype classification is irrelevant to antigenic and immunogenic properties of ASFV (Malogolovkin et al., ), the seroimmunological characteristics of ASFV isolates should be taken into consideration in the development of the systems for serological diagnosis of ASF (Balyshev et al., , ; Sereda and Balyshev, ).…”