Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease commonly seen in children in the summer. Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the causative agents of hand, foot and mouth disease, causes more pronounced central nervous system complications than the other causative viruses. In this study, we investigated an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that occurred in the northern region of Miyagi Pr...

foot and mouth disease (fmd) is a highly contagious viral disease of ruminant which causes fever and postule on mouth, hoof and teat. the main purpose of this study was to determine and charachtrize isolated fmd virus from iran between 2005 - 2006, and to compare it with vaccine virus strains. after preparation of samples, serological test for typing of virus was performed. in order to virus is...

foot-and-mouth disease is an important viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals. inactivated whole particle virus vaccines are still widely used in prophylactic vaccination campaigns. the choice of adjuvant is a very important factor in enhancing immune responses and the efficacy of inactivated vaccines. montanide isa 61 vg is a new ready-to-use mineral oil-based adjuvant developed by seppic inc....

Passage of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in cell culture in the presence of the mutagenic base analog 5-fluorouracil or 5-azacytidine resulted in decreases of infectivity and occasional extinction of the virus. Low viral loads and low viral fitness enhanced the frequency of extinction events; this finding was shown with a number of closely related FMDV clones and populations differing by ...

Small spherical viruses are paradigms of supramolecular self-assembly. Identifying the specific structural determinants for virus assembly provides guidelines to develop new antiviral drugs or engineer modified viral particles for medical or technological applications. However, very few systematic studies have been carried out so far to identify those chemical groups at interfaces between virus...

Foot-and-mouth disease virus causes a serious disease of livestock species, threatening free global trade and food security. The disease spreads rapidly between animals, and to ensure a window of opportunity for such spread, the virus has evolved multiple mechanisms to subvert the early immune response. The cycle of infection in the individual animal is very short, infection is initiated, disse...

In response to viral infection, cells mount a potent inflammatory response that relies on ISG15 and ubiquitin posttranslational modifications. Many viruses use deubiquitinases and deISGylases that reverse these modifications and antagonize host signaling processes. We here reveal that the leader protease, Lbpro, from foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) targets ISG15 and to a lesser extent, ubiq...

The design of vaccines for RNA viral diseases is complicated by the high genetic variability of the viruses, which favors the selection of escape mutants. A case in point is foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), for which only limited protection has been observed in vaccination with single peptides. We have explored the potential of immunogens of higher sequence diversity, covering a broad range...