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Nick J. Knowles

Researcher at Institute for Animal Health

Publications -  190
Citations -  11924

Nick J. Knowles is an academic researcher from Institute for Animal Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Foot-and-mouth disease. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 187 publications receiving 10409 citations. Previous affiliations of Nick J. Knowles include Autonomous University of Madrid & Novartis.

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Molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Nick J. Knowles, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2003 - 
TL;DR: For the first time, it is able to unequivocally show the recent pandemic spread of a FMDV type O strain through the whole of Asia and into Africa and Europe.
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Foot-and-mouth disease type O viruses exhibit genetically and geographically distinct evolutionary lineages (topotypes).

TL;DR: Using a large sequence database, the distribution of viruses belonging to each of the eight topotypes has been determined and the topotypes appear to represent evolutionary cul-de-sacs.