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Genetic diversity of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype O in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1997-2009.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2011
Jamal Syed M, Ferrari Giancarlo, Ahmed Safia, Normann Preben, Belsham Graham J
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan; serotypes O, A and Asia-1 of the virus are responsible for the outbreaks in these countries with FMDV type O usually being the most common. In the present study, the nucleotide sequences encoding the FMDV capsid protein VP1 from virus samples were determined. Phylogenetic analysis of the serotype O FMD viruses circulating in Pakistan and...
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