3. Immune responses against African swine fever virus infection [chapter]

M. Montoya, G. Franzoni, D. Pérez-Nuñez, Y. Revilla, I. Galindo, C. Alonso, C.L. Netherton, U. Blohm
2021 Understanding and combatting African Swine Fever  
I am enormously grateful to COST for supporting ASF-STOP and in this way providing a unique opportunity to bring together individual scientific efforts and expertise into a European-wide strong and integrated network of scientists with a common vision: combatting African swine fever. I thank especially the COST Scientific Officers Dominique Vandekerchove and Ioanna Stavridou for their assistance and advice and the Administrative Officers Christophe Peeters and Cassia Azevedo for the management
more » ... f the finances. Their professional, timely and continuous support are greatly appreciated. ASF-STOP made special efforts to achieve high excellence and inclusiveness targets. Good gender balance and active participation and integration of young scientists and scientists from less research-intensive countries were accomplished. I am proud of these achievements and thankful to COST for promoting inclusiveness and providing the financial means to make them possible. The network of ASF-STOP was established during the four years of the Action through the implementation of COST tools, such as scientific conferences and other dissemination means, working group meetings, workshops, training schools, short term scientific missions and inclusiveness target country conference grants. Collaborations were initiated or reinforced and knowledge on many aspects of ASF was exchanged and strengthened. This knowledge is assembled and presented in this book.
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