Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2012)

Southeast Asian Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses in Eastern Asia

  • Nick J. Knowles,
  • JiJun He,
  • Youjun Shang,
  • Jemma Wadsworth,
  • Begoña Valdazo-González,
  • Hiroyuki Onosato,
  • Katsuhiko Fukai,
  • Kazuki Morioka,
  • Kazuo Yoshida,
  • In-Soo Cho,
  • Su-Mi Kim,
  • Jong-Hyeon Park,
  • Kwang-Nyeong Lee,
  • Geraldine Luk,
  • Vladimir Borisov,
  • Alexey Scherbakov,
  • Anna Timina,
  • Dashzeveg Bold,
  • Tung Nguyen,
  • David J. Paton,
  • Jef M. Hammond,
  • Xiangtao Liu,
  • Donald P. King

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1803.110908
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 3
pp. 499 – 501

Abstract

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks recently affected 2 countries (Japan and South Korea) in eastern Asia that were free of FMD without vaccination. Analysis of viral protein 1 nucleotide sequences indicated that FMD serotype A and O viruses that caused these outbreaks originated in mainland Southeast Asia to which these viruses are endemic.

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