SUMMARY Starting in 2007, the African swine fever (ASF) advanced seemingly unstoppa-bly from the Caucasus region toward the western part of Europe, and in 2018 it reached Hungary. In the lack ...

SUMMARY Background: Classical swine fever (CSF) or hog cholera is a highly contagious and devastating disease of Suidae caused by an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus (CSFV) of the family Flaviviridae, genus Pestivirus. ...

SUMMARY Background: Highly pathogen avian influenza occurs from time to time in Hungary. The latest H5N8 outbreak during 2016-17 was especially devastating for the poultry industry. Objectives: The aim of this study ...

SUMMARY The first African swine fever (ASF) cases outside Africa were diagnosed in Portugal in 1957. Since 2017 the African swine fever virus (ASFV) has been continuously spreading in Eastern Europe, then it arrived to ...

SUMMARY The authors report a case of Rhodococcus equi induced disease in a 3.5 month old female Birman cat. The animal showed severe respiratory symptoms few days after the purchase. On the gross pathological examination ...

SUMMARY Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a fatal infectious disease that prominently develops in younger cats. The disease is caused by the feline coronavirus (FeCoV) that has two different pathotypes: The ...

SUMMARY West Nile virus (WNV) is a widely distributed mosquito-borne flavivirus. WNV associated disease and mortality in animal and human hosts have been diagnosed in Hungary since 2003. Over the past years (2009-2015) ...

SUMMARY In this paper the authors briefly summarize the global and Hungarian history of the Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) disease. They also review the latest results targeting host virus ...