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aWRLFMD = World Laboratory Reference for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, The Pirbright Institute, United Kingdom; SAP = Foot-and-Mouth Disease Institute, Turkey; DTU = National Veterinary Institute, Denmark.
Comprehensive comparative genomic study of dozens of closely related isolates obtained from livestock, wildlife and humans from Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania.