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Field outbreak strains of serotype O foot-and-mouth disease virus from India with a deletion in the immunodominant βG-βH loop of the VP1 protein.
Archives of virology - 1 Oct 2012
Das Biswajit, Sanyal Aniket, Subramaniam Saravanan, Mohapatra Jajati K, Pattnaik Bramhadev
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype O accounts for around 80 % of the outbreaks in India. Although Indian serotype O isolates belongs to the ME-SA topotype, circulation of different lineages has been noted. After its emergence in the year 2001, the 'Ind2001' lineage outcompeted the PanAsia lineage in causing serotype O outbreaks in the year 2009. Three isolates had an amino acid deletion at position 139 in the...
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