title: Molecular characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus isolated from ruminants in Taiwan in 1999-2000.
abstract: In 1999, 10 sporadic outbreaks of cattle foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred in Taiwan. By the time, infection was limited to the Chinese yellow cattle (a native species of beef cattle in Mainland China), which did not develop vesicular lesions under field conditions. Five viruses isolates obtained from individual farms were confirmed to be the serotype O FMD virus (O/Taiwan/1999). During January-February 2000, however, this virus has spread to dairy cattle and goat herds, causing severe mortality in goat kids and vesicular lesions in dairy cattle. Partial nucleotide sequence of the capsid coding gene 1D (VP1) was determined for the virus isolates obtained in this study. Phylogenetic analysis of the VP1 sequences indicated that the O/Taiwan/1999 viruses shared 95-97% similarities to the virus strains isolated from the Middle East and India. The species susceptibility of the O/Taiwan/1999 virus was experimentally studied in several species of susceptible animals, showing that the virus did cause generalized lesions in dairy cattle and pigs, however, it would not cause vesicular lesions on the Chinese yellow cattle and the adult goats. These studies suggested that the O/Taiwan/1999 virus was a novel FMD virus of Taiwan and it presented various levels of susceptibility in cattle species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hog Cholera, National Institute for Animal Health, Council of Agriculture, 376 Chung-Cheng Road, Tamsui, 251, ROC, Taipei, Taiwan. hc@mail.tahri.gov.tw
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Jong
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D005537:Aphthovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D002460:Cell Line; D006224:Cricetinae; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000662:veterinary; D005536:Foot-and-Mouth Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D006041:Goats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000662:veterinary; D013045:Species Specificity; D013552:Swine; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology