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Asfarvirus
	Asfarviridae virion.
Virus classification
Group:	Group I (dsDNA)
Family:	Asfarviridae;
Genus:	Asfivirus;
Species
	ASFV; ASFV-Ba71V; ASFV-E40/MS44; ASFV-E40/MS16; ASFV-LIS57

Asfarviridae is a family of viruses which primarily infects swine, resulting in an onset of African swine fever. Hence, it gets its name from the acronym: African swine fever and related viruses. They are all enveloped and have double stranded DNA as its genome. Several species exist, none of which are able to infect humans. The Asfarvirus exhibits some similarities in genome structure and replication strategies to the poxviruses and phycodnaviruses but has different virion structure from poxviruses and several other properties that distinguish it from the latter.^[1]

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^ Index of Viruses - Asfarviridae (2006). In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchen-Osmond, C (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/fs_index.htm

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[0] Index of Viruses - Asfarviridae (2006). In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchen-Osmond, C (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/fs_index.htm

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