Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in captive scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)

[en] This paper describes three episodes of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) that were detected during 2013–2015 in scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) (SHO), a large Sahelo-Saharan antelope extinct in the wild housed in a wild ungulate breeding facility located 50 km east of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While no mortality attributable to FMD was noted in the population of nearly 4,000 SHO during two of the three outbreaks, the morbidity varied according to the circulating strains and seroconversion reached a plateau of 78.0% within two weeks and remained at this level for at least nine months. Partial or complete sequencing of the VP1 encoding region demonstrated that the three outbreaks were caused by three different FMDV lineages (O/ME-SA/PanAsia-2, A/ASIA/Iran-05 and O/ME-SA/Ind-2001), consistent with FMD viruses that are circulating elsewhere in the region. These findings demonstrate that SHO are susceptible to FMD and highlight the risks of virus incursion into zoos and captive facilities in the Arabian Peninsula. © 2020 Blackwell Verlag GmbH

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Veterinary medicine & animal health

Author, co-author :

Lignereux, Louis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > FARAH

Chaber, Anne-Lise ; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Research Unit for Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences (UREAR-ULiège), Centre of Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health (FARAH), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Saegerman, Claude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (DMI) > Epidémiologie et analyse des risques appl. aux sc. vétér.

Heath, L.; Transboundary Animal Disease Program, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

Knowles, N. J.; FAO World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Wadsworth, J.; FAO World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Mioulet, V.; FAO World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

King, D. P.; FAO World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, United Kingdom

Language :

English

Title :

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in captive scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)

Publication date :

2020

Journal title :

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

ISSN :

1865-1674

eISSN :

1865-1682

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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