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Research Project: Intervention Strategies to Respond, Control, and Eradicate Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV)

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Title: Foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype Asia-1 obtained from subclinically infected Asian buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Pakistan

Author
item STENFELDT, CAROLINA - Kansas State University
item Bertram, Miranda
item Holinka-Patterson, Lauren
item FISH, IAN - Kansas State University
item FAROOQ, UMER - National Agricultural Research Center - Pakistan
item AHMED, ZAHEER - Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
item Hartwig, Ethan
item Smoliga, George
item Rodriguez, Luis
item Arzt, Jonathan
item NAEEM, KHALID - National Agricultural Research Center - Pakistan
item MEEK, HAILLIE - Oak Ridge Institute For Science And Education (ORISE)
item PAUSZEK, STEVEN - Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

Submitted to: Microbiology Resource Announcements
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/5/2022
Publication Date: 5/26/2022
Citation: Stenfeldt, C., Bertram, M.R., Holinka-Patterson, L.G., Fish, I., Farooq, U., Ahmed, Z., Hartwig, E.J., Smoliga, G.R., Rodriguez, L.L., Arzt, J., Naeem, K., Meek, H.C., Pauszek, S.J. 2022. Foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype Asia-1 obtained from subclinically infected Asian buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Pakistan. Microbiology Resource Announcements. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00312-22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00312-22

Interpretive Summary: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an important viral disease affecting animal health and economics through impacts on agriculture and trade. There are numerous different strains of FMD virus, and vaccination or previous infection with one strain does not protect against infection with a different strain, so it is important to monitor which strains are causing outbreaks in an area. Additionally, animals can be infected with FMDV without showing any signs of disease, and targeted surveillance of viruses from these subclinically infected animals provides important information of what strains of the virus are present within a given geographic region.

Technical Abstract: We report the near full genome sequences of 49 isolates of serotype Asia-1 foot-and-mouth disease virus obtained from subclinically infected Asian buffalo in Islamabad Capital Region, Pakistan, in 2011-2012. Sequences from subclinically infected animals are exceedingly rare and complement the more commonly available sequences acquired from clinical cases.