Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control, Volume II

A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2024 | Viewed by 2032

Special Issue Editor

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the opening of the second volume of the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control issue to submissions.

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an infectious transboundary viral disease that has severe implications not only for the health and production of cloven-hoofed animals, including large and small ruminants and pigs, but also for the economy of the FMD-endemic countries.

In this second volume of the Special Issue, we aim to widen our research to accept papers on all aspects of FMD research. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: viral pathogenesis, virus-host interactions, viral diagnosis and epidemiology, as well as vaccines/antivirals.

Prof. Dr. Satya Parida
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • foot-and-mouth disease
  • foot-and-mouth disease virus
  • hoof-and-mouth disease
  • FMD
  • FMD virus
  • foot-and-mouth disease vaccines

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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O Exhibits Phenomenal Genetic Lineage Diversity in India during 2018–2022
by Shyam Singh Dahiya, Saravanan Subramaniam, Jajati Keshari Mohapatra, Manoranjan Rout, Jitendra Kumar Biswal, Priyabrata Giri, Vinayak Nayak and Rabindra Prasad Singh
Viruses 2023, 15(7), 1529; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15071529 - 10 Jul 2023
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In India, widespread foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks occurred in 2021. The objective of this study was to identify genetic lineages and evaluate the antigenic relationships of FMD virus (FMDV) isolates gathered from outbreaks reported between 2019 and 2022. Our study shows that the [...] Read more.
In India, widespread foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks occurred in 2021. The objective of this study was to identify genetic lineages and evaluate the antigenic relationships of FMD virus (FMDV) isolates gathered from outbreaks reported between 2019 and 2022. Our study shows that the lineages O/ME–SA/Ind2001e and the O/ME–SA/Cluster-2018 were both responsible for the FMD outbreaks on an epidemic scale during 2021. This observation is in contrast to earlier findings that suggested epidemic-scale FMD outbreaks in India are often connected to a single genetic lineage. Additionally, we report here the identification of the O/ME–SA/PanAsia-2/ANT10 sub-lineage in India for the first time, which was connected to two intermittent outbreaks in Jammu and Kashmir. The current study demonstrates that the O/ME–SA/ind2001e lineage has a strong presence outside of the Indian subcontinent. Furthermore, the O/ME–SA/Cluster-2018 was observed to have a wider geographic distribution than previously, and like the O/ME–SA/Ind2001d and O/ME–SA/Ind2001e lineages in the past, it may eventually spread outside of its geographic niche. For O/ME–SA/Ind2001e and O/ME–SA/Cluster-2018, the predicted substitution rate for the VP1 region was 6.737 × 10−3 and 8.257 × 10−3 nt substitutions per site per year, respectively. The time of the most recent common ancestor of the O/ME–SA/Ind2001e and O/ME–SA/Cluster-2018 strains suggests that the viruses possibly emerged during 2003–2011 and 2009–2017, respectively. Recent sightings of the O/ME–SA/PanAsia2/ANT10 virus in India and the O/ME–SA/Ind2001e virus in Pakistan point to possible cross-border transit of the viruses. The results of a two-dimensional viral neutralization test revealed that all of the field isolates were antigenically matched to the currently used Indian vaccine strain O INDR2/1975. These results suggest that the serotype O vaccine strain can protect against outbreaks brought on by all three circulating lineages. Full article
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