Isolation and molecular characterization of foot-and-mouth disease viruses from small ruminants in Nigeria
David O Ehizibolo, Olumuyiwa Oyekan, Moses O Oguche, Abdullahi Ardo, Anna B Ludi, Britta A Wood, Simon Gubbins, Hayley M Hicks, Jemma Wadsworth, Etienne Chevanne, Fabrizio Rosso, Nick J Knowles, Valerie Mioulet, Donald P King, Georgina Limon · 2026
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David O Ehizibolo and a large team investigate a 2026 blind spot in Nigerian foot-and-mouth disease control: the part sheep and goats play. Cattle usually serve as the indicator species, leaving small ruminants understudied. On Plateau State farms where the animals mix, the team sampled 138 sheep and 39 goats across nine local government areas, taking blood, oral swabs, and tissue from suspected cases.
Most animals, 71.2 percent of those tested, had antibodies showing past exposure, with sheep at 77.5 percent and goats at 48.7 percent in the results. Viral RNA appeared in 36.6 percent of oral swabs, and serotypes O and A were identified. Gene trees tied the sheep and goat viruses closely to cattle viruses on the same farms. The authors urge planners to count small ruminants in surveillance.
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| CREATOR | David O Ehizibolo, Olumuyiwa Oyekan, Moses O Oguche, Abdullahi Ardo, Anna B Ludi, Britta A Wood, Simon Gubbins, Hayley M Hicks, Jemma Wadsworth, Etienne Chevanne, Fabrizio Rosso, Nick J Knowles, Valerie Mioulet, Donald P King, Georgina Limon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26667 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |