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Foot-and-mouth disease virus.
Comparative immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2002
Domingo Esteban, Baranowski Eric, Escarmís Cristina, Sobrino Francisco
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is an aphthovirus of the family Picornaviridae and the etiological agent of the economically most important animal disease. As a typical picornavirus, FMD virions are nonenveloped particles of icosahedral symmetry and its genome is a single stranded RNA of about 8500 nucleotides and of positive polarity. FMDV RNA is infectious and it replicates via a complementary, minus strand...
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