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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks
Foot-and-mouth disease virus variant responsible for recent outbreaks in India
October 23rd, 2005
A foot-and-mouth disease virus variant is responsible for the majority of recent outbreaks in India. "Recent reports indicated presence of two antigenic and genetic groups (genotypes VI and VII) of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) type A in India and are divergent from the vaccine strains. "In order to choose suitable field isolate as candidate vaccine strain, antisera against representative isolates from both the genotypes and two in-use vaccine strains are tested in neutralization assay," scientists writing in the journal Virus Research report. "Two candidate vaccine strains from both the genotypes are selected with...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2005-10-23)
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