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Development of a universal RT-PCR for amplifying and sequencing the leader and capsid-coding region of foot-and-mouth disease virus.
Journal of virological methods - 1 Apr 2013
Xu Lizhe, Hurtle William, Rowland Jessica M, Casteran Karissa A, Bucko Stacey M, Grau Fred R, Valdazo-González Begoña, Knowles Nick J, King Donald P, Beckham Tammy R, McIntosh Michael T
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals with debilitating and devastating consequences for livestock industries throughout the world. Key antigenic determinants of the causative agent, FMD virus (FMDV), reside within the surface-exposed proteins of the viral capsid. Therefore, characterization of the sequence that encodes the capsid (P1) is important for tracking...
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