Disease Images

Disease Images: African Swine Fever

Additional resources for African Swine Fever


Description:
Pig. There is bloody, mucoid, foamy nasal discharge.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_001

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Pig, limbs. There is marked hyperemia of the distal limbs.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_002

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Pig, perineal skin. There is a large sharply demarcated zone of hyperemia.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_003

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Pig. There are multiple sharply demarcated foci of cutaneous hemorrhage and/or necrosis; hemorrhagic lesions may contain dark red (necrotic) centers.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_004

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Pig. There are multiple sharply demarcated foci of cutaneous hemorrhage and/or necrosis; hemorrhagic lesions may contain dark red (necrotic) centers.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_005

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Pig, skin. Necrotic exudate is sloughing from the lesion on the left. There is a rim of hyperemia around the focus of hemorrhage and necrosis (infarct) on the right.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_006

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Pig, kidney. There is moderate perirenal (retroperitoneal) edema.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_007

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Pig, kidney. Petechiae are disseminated throughout the cortex, and there are larger coalescing pelvic hemorrhages.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_008

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Pig, kidney. Close-up of cortical petechiae.

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Photo ID: ASF_009

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Pig, kidney. The cortex contains numerous coalescing petechiae and ecchymoses.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_010

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Pig, kidney. There is severe disseminated cortical petechiation; the pale foci are infarcts.

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Photo ID: ASF_011

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Pig, urinary bladder. There are disseminated mucosal petechiae.

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Photo ID: ASF_012

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Pig, heart. There is abundant straw-colored pericardial fluid (hydropericardium), and multifocal epicardial hemorrhage.

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Photo ID: ASF_013

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Pig, heart. Subendocardial hemorrhage.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_014

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Pig, lung. The lung is noncollapsed and edematous; there is dorsal hemorrhage and ventral tan consolidation.

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Photo ID: ASF_015

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Pig, stomach. There is "paintbrush" hemorrhage on the serosa.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_016

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Pig, mandibular lymph node. There is moderate peripheral (medullary) hemorrhage.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_017

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Pig, stomach. The hepatogastric lymph node is markedly enlarged and hemorrhagic, and the adjacent lesser omentum is edematous.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_018

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Pig, stomach. The stomach is filled with clotted blood, and the wall is markedly edematous.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_019

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Pig, spiral colon. The colon is distended with bloody contents (due to a hemorrhagic gastric ulcer).

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_020

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Pig, cecum. Mucosa is markedly edematous and hyperemic, and lymph nodes are hemorrhagic.

Credit: PIADC
Photo ID: ASF_021

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These images were annotated by Dr. Steve Sorden and Dr. Claire Andreasen and funding was provided by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant in collaboration with the Iowa State University Department of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH), Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), and Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC).