Wild boar carcassess in the center of boar activity: crucial risks of ASF transmission
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F24%3AN0000009" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/24:N0000009 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2024.1497361/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2024.1497361/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2024.1497361" target="_blank" >10.3389/fvets.2024.1497361</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Wild boar carcassess in the center of boar activity: crucial risks of ASF transmission
Original language description
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly virulent disease rapidly spreading through Europe with fatal consequences for wild boar and domestic pigs. Understanding pathogen transmission among individuals and populations is crucial for disease control. However, the carcass attractiveness for boars was surprisingly almost unstudied. Here, we evaluated if the wild boar carcasses are perceived as an attractant compared to the control sites throughout the year. For this purpose, 28 wild boar carcasses were placed in seven forest stands and continuously monitored in 2019-2020 by camera traps combined with control locations situated at least 200 m away in comparable habitats. Overall, we have recorded 3,602 wild boar visits, from which 3,017 (83.8%) were recorded in locations with placed carcasses and 585 (16.2%) in control locations. Most visits were recorded after sunset and before sunrise, corresponding to common peaks of wild boar activity. On average, the first visits were detected 4.7 days after carcass placement. Contrarily, it was 61.5 days for the control site. In conclusion, we have proven an enormous wild boar carcass attractiveness for boars, which exhibits an entirely new aspect of wild boar behavior. Therefore, the carcass removal is a crucial measure for controlling the spread of ASF.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40301 - Veterinary science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/QK1920184" target="_blank" >QK1920184: Technical and biological tools and procedures to prevent the African swine fever in population of free-ranging wild boar in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
ISSN
2297-1769
e-ISSN
2297-1769
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
DEC 19 2024
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1497361
UT code for WoS article
001387359900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85213695533