Classical Swine Fever Database

EU and WOAH Reference Laboratory for CSF

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(c) B. Zimmermann, I.Greiser-Wilke
     Institute of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Cite this work as

Irene Greiser-Wilke, Bernd Zimmermann: The CSF database of the European Community Reference Laboratory.
Institute of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Sabrina Dreier, Bernd Zimmermann, Volker Moennig, Irene Greiser-Wilke (2006).
A sequence database allowing automated genotyping of Classical swine fever virus isolates. J. Vir. Methods 2007, 140, 95-99.
Greiser-Wilke I., Dreier S., Haas L., Zimmermann B.
Genetic typing of classical swine fever viruses - a review. Dtsch. Tierarztl. Wochenschr. 2006 Apr; 113(4), 134-138.
Greiser-Wilke I., Zimmermann B., Fritzemeier J., Floegel G., & Moennig V.
Structure and presentation of a World Wide Web database of CSF virus isolates held at the EU Reference Laboratory. Vet Microbiol 2000 Apr 13;73(2-3), 131-136.

Short introduction
The menu in the User mode contains six main buttons. The first one (Full CSF Listing) leads to a summary of all the entries. There are two different catalogue numbers, one of them indicating that a virus stock is kept in the EURL (CSFnnnn), and the other one consisting of published epidemiological and sequence data downloaded from the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (XXXnnnn).
The user can manually select a set of entries, and export the data into another screen. From this screen, the sequences can be exported in the flatfile format for further use. Alternatively, the user can search the database (Search CSF) by the Catalogue or the EMBL Numbers, or/and by the year, country or/and region of isolation, by the genotype or by the host species. Again, the result is displayed in a new window, and a file with the sequences in the flatfile format can be generated. The button CSF Sequence allows to search and display a sequence on the screen. Genetic Typing accesses the corresponding module. Via CSF Maps the user can search for georeferenced entries. This Help lists the country codes and other abbreviations used in the database.

Notes on CSF maps
CSF outbreaks with unknown location are always mapped to the capital of the country!
The location is printed on the reference card which is displayed by clicking on the colored marker. If there are different outbreaks per marker the reference card shows the number. Please note: google increments the number by 1, counting the marker itself. By follwing the link to the full display inside google maps (Full map link) you can select ot deselect the displayed results in the map

Abbreviations

Country codes (ISO 3166)

German provinces ("Bundesländer")

Codes for veterinary authorities