Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Research
Genetic Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses, Ethiopia, 1981–2007
Gelagay Ayelet, Mana Mahapatra
, Esayas Gelaye, Berhe G. Egziabher, Tesfaye Rufeal, Mesfin Sahle, Nigel P. Ferris, Jemma Wadsworth, Geoffrey H. Hutchings, and Nick J. Knowles
, Esayas Gelaye, Berhe G. Egziabher, Tesfaye Rufeal, Mesfin Sahle, Nigel P. Ferris, Jemma Wadsworth, Geoffrey H. Hutchings, and Nick J. KnowlesTable 1
Species of animals affected and foot-and-mouth disease virus serotypes identified in outbreaks in Ethiopia, 1981–2007*
| Species | No. samples tested/no. positive† | Serotype |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O | A | C | SAT 1 | SAT 2 | ||
| Bovine | 250/216 | 159 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Swine | 7/3 | 3 | – | – | – | – |
| Sheep | 5/1 | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Goats |
7/1 |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
| Total | 269/221 | 162 | 43 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
*SAT, Southern African Territories; –, not identified.
†Positive results determined by cytopathic effect.
