Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype A in Egypt

Abstract

We describe the characterization of a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) serotype A virus responsible for recent outbreaks of disease in Egypt. Phylogenetic analysis of VP1 nucleotide sequences demonstrated a close relationship to recent FMD virus isolates from East Africa, rather than to viruses currently circulating in the Middle East.

Keywords

• Aphthovirus
• epidemiology
• molecular
• foot-and-mouth disease virus
• molecular sequence data
• phylogeny