Research Article

Isolation, Serotyping, and Molecular Detection of Bovine FMD Virus from Outbreak Cases in Abaʼala District of Afar Region, Ethiopia

Table 2

Types of samples and serotyping results of FMD virus isolates at NVI Ethiopia.

NoSample codeSample typeSexKebele-level outbreaksSpeciesSerotyping results

1E-M-E1Epithelial tissueMaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
2E-M-V2Vesicular sampleMaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
3E-F-S3Swab sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
4E-M-E4Epithelial tissueMaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
5E-F-V5Vesicular sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
6E-F-S6Swab sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
7E-F-E7Epithelial tissueFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
8E-F-V8Vesicular sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
9E-F-E9Epithelial tissueFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
10E-F-V10Vesicular sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
11E-M-E11Epithelial tissueMaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
12E-F-S12Swab sampleFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2
13E-F-E13Epithelial tissueFemaleErkudiBovineSAT-2

Key: E = Erkudi; H = Hidmo; M = male; F = female; S = swab; V = vesicular; SAT-2 = Southern African Territories; En = epithelial tissue where, n = 1, 2,…, n.