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SUBMITTER: Park JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879075 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of veterinary science 20180301 2
On December 3, 2014, a type O foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak began in Korea. Although vaccinations were administered, FMD cases increased steadily for five months, and reached 185 cases by April 2015. Most of the affected animals were pigs, which are vulnerable to vaccination. The FMD virus belonged to the South-East Asia (SEA) topotype that had been observed three times in Korea between April 2010 and July 2014. However, the FMD virus isolated in December 2014 had a unique feature; that ...[more]