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Recent spread of a new strain (A-Iran-05) of foot-and-mouth disease virus type A in the Middle East.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Jun 2009
Knowles N J, Nazem Shirazi M H, Wadsworth J, Swabey K G, Stirling J M, Statham R J, Li Y, Hutchings G H, Ferris N P, Parlak U, Ozyörük F, Sumption K J, King D P, Paton D J
Abstract excerpt
This report describes the characterization of a new genotype of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) type A responsible for recent FMD outbreaks in the Middle East. Initially identified in samples collected in 2003 from Iran, during 2005 and 2006 this FMDV lineage (proposed to be named A-Iran-05) spread into Saudi Arabia and Jordan and then further west into Turkey reaching European Thrace in January 2007. Most...
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