Cho, Ho-Seong
- Major
- Swine Diseases, Veterinary Pathologist
- Position
- Professor
- Email
- hscho@jbnu.ac.kr
- Office
- R306, Animal Medical Center, Jeonbuk National University Specialized Campus, 79 Gobong-ro, Iksan-si, Jeonbuk State, Republic of Korea
Detail Information
• Epidemiology, diagnostics, and vaccine development for nationally significant infectious diseases and productivity-reducing diseases in pigs
• mRNA vaccine development
• Animal microbiome research
• Goat disease research
Interests
• Ph.D. : Veterinary Pathology Graduate School of Chonnam National University Republic of Korea (2003)
• M.S. : Veterinary Pathology Graduate School of Chonnam National University Republic of Korea (1995)
• D.V.M. :Veterinary Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonnam National University Republic of Korea(1993)
Education
• 2010-present Professor College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National Univ.
• 2025-present DirectorVeterinary Diagnostic Center of JBNU
• 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow College of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Missouri, U.S.A.
• 2003-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonnam Nat’l. Univ.
• 2019-present Head of Veterinary Virus Division, Korean Society of Virology
• 2019-2021 Director, Animal Medical Center of JBNU
• 2019-present Chairperson of the African Swine Fever Advisory Group, Ministry of Environment, Korea
• 2020-present Chairperson of the Epidemiological Investigation Committee on African Swine Fever, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Korea
• 2020-present Chairperson of the Special Committee on Veterinary Notifiable Infectious Diseases, Korean Veterinary Medical Association
• 2023-2024 Member, Expert Committee on Biomedical Division of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PASCT), Korea
• 2025-present Chairperson, Expert Committee on BiomanufacturingㆍAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PASCT), Korea
• 2025-present Member, Resources and Innovation Subcommittee, Presidental Bio Committee, Korea
Career
• Dae Sung Yoo, Ho-Seong Cho, Yeonsu Oh. 2025. Impact of Carcass Detection Delays on the Sustained Transmission of African Swine Fever among Wild Boars. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 2025; Article ID 9889895.
• Md. Mukter Hossain, Riazul Islam Riad, Md. Mashfiq Hossain Khadem, Ruhena Begum, Md. Shoriful Alam Sumon, Ho‑Seong Cho, Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Md Bashir Uddin. Structural function of multidrug‑resistant Salmonella carrying mcr‑1 gene in colistin resistance. Discover Applied Sciences (2025) 7:630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-025-06671-5
• Da-Yun Bae, Dae Sung Yoo, Seon Jae Moon, Zoya Afzal, Hyewon Choi, Do-Kyung Ra, Yoon-Kyung Jeong, Jiyeon Kim, Hye Won Jung, So-Yeon Park, Ae Ra Park, Woo H. Kim, Won-Il Kim, Dongseob Tark, Choi-Kyu Park, Min-Goo Seo, Yeonsu Oh, Ho-Seong Cho. Serological and molecular prevalence of small ruminant morbillivirus (SRMV) infection in Korean native black goats and Korean water deer. Korean J. Vet. Serv. 2025; 48(2): 117-122.
• Ju Hui Choi, Yoonyoung Choi, Zoya Afzal, Dae Sung Yoo, Yung Chul Park, Ho-Seong Cho, Yeonsu Oh. Development of a risk-based zoning strategy for African swine fever control in South Korea: Integrating spatial analysis and biosecurity assessment. Korean J. Vet. Serv. 2025; 48(2): 105-116.
• Islam MM, Uddin MB, Hossain H, Roy M, Begum R, Ghosh PK, Rahman MM, Cho HS, Hossain MM. Molecular Identification and Antimicrobial Resistance Characteristics of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated from Captive Wild and Migratory Birds. Vet Sci. 2025 Jun 6;12(6):556. doi: 10.3390/vetsci12060556. PMID: 40559793; PMCID: PMC12197686.
• Hyunji Gu, Gun-Hee Lee, Yongkwan Kim, Dae-Min Kim, Eun-Gyeong Lee, Sang-Hyun Lee, Ji-Soo Kim, Garam Kim, So-Jeong Kim, Wonjun Kim, Youngsik Kim, Jae-Ku Oem, Ho-Seong Cho, Weonhwa Jheong, Dongseob Tark. Assessing environment resistance of the Korean wild boar ASFV isolates "ASFV/Yeoncheon/2019“. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Article ID 4032319, 12 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/tbed/4032319
• Yuin Kim, Dae-Sung Yoo, Yeonsu Oh*, Ho-Seong Cho*. Enhancing antibody positivity rates following foot-and-mouth disease vaccination in Korean pig farms. Korean J Vet Serv 2025;48(1):73-78.
Yeonsu Oh, Young-Seung Ko, Ho-Seong Cho*. Changes in gut microbiome associated with parity in sows using full-length 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Korean J Vet Serv 2025;48(1):25-36
• Dae Sung Yoo, Ho-Seong Cho, Yeonsu Oh*. Epidemiological trends and control strategies for bovine tuberculosis in South Korea, 2018∼2024. Korean J Vet Serv 2025;48(1):17-23
• Chan-Ho Park, Haeng-Joon Jeong, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Ki-Tae Kim, Chang-Mook Park, Seung-Man Kim, Jae-Wan An, Zoya Afzal, Ho-Seong Cho*, Yeonsu Oh*. Epidemiological and diagnostic study of porcine Mycoplasma pneumonia in Gangwon province, Korea. Korean J Vet Serv 2025;48(1):9-16.
• Da-Yun Bae, Sung-Hyun Moon, Taek Geun Lee, Young-Seung Ko, Yun-Chae Cho, Hamin Kang, Chan-Soo Park, Jung-Sun Kang, Yeonsu Oh, Ho-Seong Cho. Consequences of Domestication on Gut Microbiome:A Comparative Analysis Between Wild Boars and Domestic Pigs. Animals 2025, 15, 747. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15050747
• Lee JM, Ryu JH, Kim SC, Kim HJ, Rasool A, Lee CY, Oem JK, Cho HS, Kim WI. Prevalence of influenza A, C and D viruses in Korean swine farms. Korean J Vet Serv 2024;47(4):193-199. https://doi.org/10.7853/kjvs.2024.47.4.193
• Kim G-H, Yoo D-S, Chu K-S, Cho E-H, Wi S-I, Song K-O, Ra DK, Kim WH, Park C-K, Tark D, Yeonsu Oh, Ho-Seong Cho*. Assessing Post-Vaccination Seroprevalence and Enhancing Strategies for Lumpy Skin Disease Vaccination in Korean Cattle. Animals. 2024; 14(22):3236. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14223236
• Dokyung Ra, Hyung-Seok Kim, Cheol Jeong, Dae sung Yoo, Ho-Seong Cho, Yeonsu Oh. Lumpy skin disease outbreak and quarantine in the Incheon area. Korean J Vet Serv 2024;47(3):179-183. https://doi.org/10.7853/kjvs.2024.47.3.179
• Begum R, Uddin MB, Rahman MM, Roy M, Rahman A, Rafe-Ush-Shan SM, Chowdhury MSR, Hossain H, Alam J, Cho HS* and Hossain MM, 2024. Lumpy skin disease in Bangladesh: seroprevalence and risk factors of LSD in cattle. International Journal of Veterinary Science 13(6): 896-902. https://doi.org/10.47278/journal.ijvs/2024.207
• Md. Atik Faysal, Fatema Yeasmin Tanni, Md. Mahfujur Rahman, Md Anisur Rahman, Md. Shahidur Rahman Chowdhury, Ho-Seong Cho*, Md. Mukter Hossain*, Md Bashir Uddin*. In silico Driven Multi-Epitope Subunit Candidate Vaccine against Bovine Tuberculosis, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2024, 5534041, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/5534041
• Park GS. Lee S, Jeong MA, Lee SY, Cho DG, Cho W, Kim SC, Kim HJ, Lee TG, Jeong CG.; Kim WI, Oh Y, Cho HS*, Seo BJ*, Kim C*. First Trial of a Novel Caseous Lymphadenitis Inactivated Vaccine in South Korea: Experimental Evaluation across Various Animal Models. Pathogens 2024, 13, 729. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens13090729
• Kim, Seung-Chai, Lee, Taek Geun, Na, Eun-Jee, Moon, Sung-Hyun, Kim, Hwan-Ju, Jeong, Chang-Gi, Choi, Young Ki, Oh, Yeonsu, Lee, Chung-Young, Oem, Jae-Ku, Kim, Won-Il, Cho, Ho-Seong*. Major Shift of Influenza A Virus of Swine (IAV-S) by Human-to-Swine Spillover of the 2009 Pandemic Virus in Korea, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2024, 6366170, 20 pages, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/6366170
• Ju-Hee Yang, Yeonsu Oh, Sung-Hyun Moon, Gun-Hee Lee, Jae Young Kim, Yeon-Kyung Shin, Dongseob Tark and Ho-Seong Cho. Suspected human-to-cat Spillover of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in South Korea. Viruses, 2024
• Dae-Min Kim, Sung-Hyun Moon, Seung-Chai Kim, Ho-Seong Cho and Dongseob Tark. Genetic and Pathogenic Analysis of a Novel Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Strain Isolated in the Republic of Korea. Viruses Viruses 2024, 16(7), 1108, https://doi.org/10.3390/v16071108
• Yeonsu Oh, Jongwoog Choi, Ho-Seong Cho. Recurrent odontogenic fibroma in a Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis). Korean J Vet Serv 2024;47(1):49-53, https://doi.org/10.7853/kjvs.2024.47.1.49
• Shraddha Tiwari, Thakur Dhakal, Tae-Su Kim, Seong-Hyeon Kim, Sang-Joon Lee, Dae-Sung Yoo, Ho-Seong Cho, Gab-Sue Jang, and Yeonsu Oh. Global Basic Reproduction Number of African Swine Fever in Wild Boar and a Mental Model to Explore the Disease Dynamics. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2024; 1046866. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/1046866
• Seo J, Kim G, Lim J-a, Song S, Yoo D-S, Cho H-S, Oh Y. Tick Diversity and Pathogen Transmission in Daejeon, Korea: Implications from Companion Animals and Walking Trails. Veterinary Sciences. 2024; 11(2):90. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci11020090
• Kim D-M, Moon S-H, Kim S-C, Lee TG, Cho H-S, Tark D. Genome characterization of a Korean isolate of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024, 13(1):e0011823. doi: 10.1128/mra.00118-23.
• Sang-Joon Lee, Ki-Yoon Kim, Gyurae Kim, Subin Moon, Yung-Chul Park, Ho-Seong Cho* and Yeonsu Oh. Potential tick defense associated with skin and hair characteristics in Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus) Animals, 2024, 14, 185.