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Low diversity of foot-and-mouth disease serotype C virus in Kenya: evidence for probable vaccine strain re-introductions in the field.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Feb 2011
Sangula A K, Siegismund H R, Belsham G J, Balinda S N, Masembe C, Muwanika V B
Abstract excerpt
Most viruses are maintained by complex processes of evolution that enable them to survive but also complicate efforts to achieve their control. In this paper, we study patterns of evolution in foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) serotype C virus isolates from Kenya, one of the few places in the world where serotype C has been endemic and is suspected to remain. The nucleotide sequences encoding the capsid protein VP1...
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