African swine fever virus NAM P1/95 is a mixture of genotype I and genotype VIII viruses

African swine fever virus causes a lethal hemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs. The NAM P1/1995 isolate was originally described as B646L genotype XVIII; however, full genome sequencing revealed that this assignment was incorrect.

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