Mosaic structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus genomes

Mosaic structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus genomes.

The results of a simple pairwise-scanning analysis designed to identify inter-serotype recombination fragments, applied to genome data from 156 isolates of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) representing all seven serotypes, are reported. Large numbers of candidate recombinant fragments were identified from all parts of the FMDV genome, with the exception of the capsid genes, within which such...

Lyophilizing Foot-and Mouth Disease Virus at Low Drying Temperature

Foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is an aphthovirus of the family Picornaviridae and the etiological agent of the economically most important animal disease. As a typical picornavirus, FMD virions are nonenveloped particles of icosahedral symmetry and its genome is a single stranded RNA of about 8500 nucleotides and of positive polarity. FMDV RNA is infectious and it replicates via a compleme...

pH Resistance of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and its Complement-Fixing Antigen

Molecular Cloning of VPI gene of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Type 01/Iran