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A diagnostic assay has been developed to detect African Swine Fever virus in field samples. It is based on the use of32P-DNA from pRPEL2 plasmid as a hybridization probe. This plasmid contains essentially the H-ClaI DNA fragment from the Spain-70 strain of African Swine Fever virus.
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Caballero, R.G., Tabares, E. Application of pRPEL2 plasmid to detect African Swine Fever virus by DNA-DNA hybridization. Archives of Virology 87, 119–125 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01310548
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