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Emergence and Distribution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype A and O in Bangladesh.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Jun 2015
Nandi S P, Rahman M Z, Momtaz S, Sultana M, Hossain M A
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Bangladesh and is predominantly due to FMDV serotype O. In 2012, FMD outbreaks were identified in five different districts of Bangladesh. Of 56 symptomatic cattle epithelial tissue samples, diagnostic PCR assay based on 5'-URT detected 38 FMDV infections. Viral genotyping targeting VP1-encoding region confirmed emergence of two distinct serotypes, A and O with an...
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