Identification and characterization of the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) strains circulating in endemic countries their dynamics are essential elements global FMD control strategy. Characterization FMDV is usually performed reference laboratories (RL). However, shipping samples to RL a challenge due cost biosafety requirements transportation, resulting lack knowledge about some areas. In ...

Nereis falsa de Quatrefages, 1866 has been regarded as a cosmopolitan species, and several species described from different localities have junior synonyms of N. falsa. The present study is an attempt to resolve the taxonomic confusion in falsa, which seems contain distinct due previous inappropriate synonymy, widely distributed Atlantic eastern Pacific Oceans. For this purpose, authors first p...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an extremely contagious viral affects all cloven- hoofed animals. The present study aimed to investigate the epidemiological situation of FMD in Egypt during 2017 and 2018, based on antigenic genetic characterizations virus (FMDV). Thirty oral epithelia were collected from vaccinated animals (14 native cattle 16 water buffaloes) showed clinical signs four Egyptia...

Bluetongue virus is the type species of the genus Orbivirus in the family Reoviridae. We report the first complete genome sequence of an isolate (IND2004/01) of bluetongue virus serotype 10 (BTV-10) from Andhra Pradesh, India. This isolate, which is stored in the Orbivirus Reference Collection (ORC) at IAH Pirbright, shows >99% nucleotide identity in all 10 genome segments with a vaccine strain...

Meloidogyne christiei isolated from turkey oak, Quercus laevies, from the type locality in Florida was characterized using isozyme profiles and ribosomal and mitochondrial gene sequences. The phenotype N1a detected from a single egg-laying female of M. christiei showed one very strong band of malate dehydrogenase (MDH) activity; however, no esterase (EST) activity was identified from macerate o...

Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is an emerging arboviral pathogen of wild and domestic ruminants worldwide. It is closely related to bluetongue virus (BTV) and is transmitted by adult females of competent Culicoides vector species. The EHDV genome consists of ten linear double-stranded (ds)RNA segments, encoding five non-structural and seven structural proteins. Genome-segment reass...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Three different serotypes of the virus, namely O, A and Asia-1, are responsible for the outbreaks of this disease in these countries. In the present study, the nucleotide-coding sequences for the VP1 capsid protein (69 samples) or for all four capsid proteins (P1, seven representative samples) of the serotype A FMD viruses cir...