Researchers from The Pirbright Institute are joining UCL experts in a study to understand how African swine fever virus (ASFV) enters and replicates in pig cells.
The Pirbright Institute has joined a European Union-funded project which will study next-generation vaccines against African swine fever (ASF).
A unique study has highlighted an important role for ‘helper’ T-cells in enabling sheep to mount a timely protective immune response to bluetongue virus (BTV) infection.
Transmitted by Culicoides biting midges, bluetongue virus has recently been detected in over 80 sheep and cattle across farms spanning three counties in southern and eastern England. Infected midges are thought to have been blown across the channel from the Netherlands, where it was first detected at the end of last year.
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