Article
Persistent infection of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) with SAT-type foot-and-mouth disease viruses: rate of fixation of mutations, antigenic change and interspecies transmission.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jul 1996
Vosloo W, Bastos A D, Kirkbride E, Esterhuysen J J, van Rensburg D J, Bengis R G, Keet D W, Thomson G R
Abstract excerpt
Transmission of a plaque-purified SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) occurred erratically from artificially infected African buffaloes in captivity to susceptible buffaloes and cattle in the same enclosure; in some instances transmission occurred only after contact between persistently inf...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Viral
- Aphthovirus
- Base Sequence
- Buffaloes
- Cattle
- Cell Line
- DNA, Viral
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- Genome, Viral
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Virus Latency