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Outbreaks of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease in Libya and Saudi Arabia During 2013 Due to an Exotic O/ <scp>ME</scp> ‐ <scp>SA</scp> /Ind‐2001 Lineage Virus
7 Dec 2014
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease viruses are often restricted to specific geographical regions and spread to new areas may lead to significant epidemics. Phylogenetic analysis of sequences of the VP1 genome region of recent outbreak viruses from Libya and Saudi Arabia has revealed a lineage, O-Ind-2001, normally found in the Indian subcontinent. This paper describes the characterization of field viruses collected from...
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