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Molecular epidemiological studies on foot-and-mouth disease type O Taiwan viruses from the 1997 epidemic.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Jun 2000
Tsai C P, Pan C H, Liu M Y, Lin Y L, Chen C M, Huang T S, Cheng I C, Jong M H, Yang P C
Abstract excerpt
Sequence diversity was assessed of the complete VP1 gene directly amplified from 49 clinical specimens during an explosive foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Taiwan. Type O Taiwan FMD viruses are genetically highly homogenous, as seen by the minute divergence of 0.2-0.9% revealed in 20 variants. The O/HCP-0314/TW/97 and O/TCP-022/TW/97 viral variants dominated FMD outbreaks and were prevalent in most...
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