Isolation and identification of foot and mouth disease virus during an outbreak of 2006 in Egypt
Abstract: In January 2006, an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) started in bulls imported and kept in quarantine station at Ismalia governorate, then occurred among local cattle, buffaloes and dairy farms in most governorates in upper and Lower Egypt with 100% morbidity and high mortality rates reach to 80% in newly born valves. The virus isolated from imported and local animals was identified in Egypt as serotype A, using double sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay and this was subsequently confirmed by the World Reference Laboratory for foot and mouth disease in Pirbright (United Kingdom). Examination of 62 sera collected during the outbreak against FMDV-3ABC polyprotein antigen revealed that 43 sera (include all sera of imported bulls) tested positive. Out of the 43 positive sera tested with virus neutralization, 34 sera had antibodies against isolated serotype A/EGY/1/2006 FMD virus with titers ranged from 0.75 to 1.35 log10 TCID50. FMD-WRL added that type A/EGY/1/2006 virus was antigenically related to serotype A FMD virus isolated from Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, the obtained results and the results of FMD-WRL suggesting that type A virus may have been introduced into Egypt through live animal importation.
Publication year 2006
Pages 451-464
Availability location مكتبة كلية الطب البيطري بكفر الشيخ - مكتبة معهد بحوث الأمصال واللقاحات البيطرية
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City كفر الشيخ
serial title مجلة العلوم الطبية البيطرية بكفر الشيخ
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    إيمان محمد عبد الرحمن معهد بحوث الأمصال واللقاحات البيطرية
    سيد زيدان معهد بحوث الأمصال واللقاحات البيطرية
Agris Categories Animal diseases
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TERMS		 Foot and mouth disease.
Publication Type Journal
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