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Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccines
Study findings from S.B. Nagendrakumar et al broaden understanding of foot and mouth disease vaccines
July 1st, 2009
Fresh data on foot and mouth disease are presented in the report 'Genetic analysis of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype A of Indian origin and detection of positive selection and recombination in leader protease-and capsid-coding regions.' "The leader protease (L pro) and capsid-coding sequences (P1) constitute approximately 3 kb of the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). We studied the phylogenetic relationship of 46 FMDV serotype A isolates of Indian origin collected during the period 1968-2005 and also eight vaccine strains using the neighbour-joining tree and Bayesian tree methods," scientists in Hyderabad, India report. "The viruses were categorized under...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-07-01)
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