Key result
Genome sequencing of four Kenyan foot-and-mouth disease virus strains updates regional molecular epidemiology.
Why the study?
To provide an updated molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease virus in Kenya through genomic sequencing.
New Kenyan SAT1/SAT2 FMDV genomes expand surveillance databases; leaves open their utility for vaccine matching or outbreak tracing.
Here, we report the near-complete genomes of three Southern African Territories 1 (SAT1) serotype strains and one SAT2 serotype strain of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) recently isolated from Kenya. Viral isolates were obtained from bovine epithelial tissues collected in 2014 and 2016 following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). These near-complete genome sequences provide a critical update of Kenyan FMDV molecular epidemiology.
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Palinski et al. (2019) studied Foot-and-mouth disease (n=4). Near-complete genome sequences of three SAT1 and one SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus strains from Kenya were obtained to update the molecular epidemiology of the virus.
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