Assembly of African Swine Fever Virus: Quantitative Ultrastructural Analysisin Vitroandin Vivo

• Published in: Virology (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 224; no. 1; pp. 84 - 92
• Main Authors: Brookes, S.M., Dixon, L.K., Parkhouse, R.M.E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.10.1996

African swine fever virus is an icosahedral double-stranded DNA virus which replicates in the cytoplasm of porcine monocytic cells. Progeny virus particles, like poxviruses and iridoviruses, are assembled in cytoplasmic inclusions, termed virus factories. The formation of these structures in suscept...