Foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 3 in long-horned Ankole calf, Uganda

Moses Tefula Dhikusooka; Kirsten Tjørnehøj; Chrisostom Ayebazibwe; Alice Namatovu; Simon Ruhweza; Hans Redlef Siegismund; Sabenzia Nabalayo Wekesa; Preben Normann; Graham J Belsham

doi:10.3201/eid2101.140995

Foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 3 in long-horned Ankole calf, Uganda

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Jan;21(1):111-4. doi: 10.3201/eid2101.140995.

Authors

Moses Tefula Dhikusooka, Kirsten Tjørnehøj, Chrisostom Ayebazibwe, Alice Namatovu, Simon Ruhweza, Hans Redlef Siegismund, Sabenzia Nabalayo Wekesa, Preben Normann, Graham J Belsham

Abstract

After a 16-year interval, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 3 was isolated in 2013 from an apparently healthy long-horned Ankole calf that grazed close to buffalo in Uganda. The emergent virus strain is ≈20% different in nucleotide sequence (encoding VP1 [viral protein 1]) from its closest relatives isolated previously from buffalo in Uganda.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Antibodies, Viral / blood
Capsid Proteins / chemistry
Capsid Proteins / genetics
Cattle
Cattle Diseases / blood
Cattle Diseases / diagnosis*
Cattle Diseases / immunology
Evolution, Molecular
Foot-and-Mouth Disease / blood
Foot-and-Mouth Disease / diagnosis*
Foot-and-Mouth Disease / immunology
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus / genetics*
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus / immunology
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

Antibodies, Viral
Capsid Proteins