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The implications of virus diversity within the SAT 2 serotype for control of foot-and-mouth disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2003
Bastos A D S, Haydon D T, Sangaré O, Boshoff C I, Edrich J L, Thomson G R
Abstract excerpt
SAT 2 is the serotype most often associated with outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in livestock in southern and western Africa and is the only SAT type to have been recorded outside the African continent in the last decade. Its epidemiology is complicated by the presence of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), which play an important role in virus maintenance and transmission. To assess the level of genetic...
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