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Laboratory for
Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Botswana
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  Official name: Republic of Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland/Bechuanaland Protectorate )
  WRLFMD code: BOT (formerly BEC)
  FMD first recorded: Untyped (1932/3), SAT1 (1948), SAT3 (1958),
SAT2 (African buffalo: 1969; cattle: 1977)
  FMD eradicated:  
 

Subsequent outbreaks:

 
  Serotypes (last rpt): Livestock: SAT1 (2006), SAT2 (2008), SAT3 (1966)
African buffalo: SAT1 (2006), SAT2 (2006), SAT3 (2000)
  Notes: All three SAT types are endemic in the African buffalo population
  Current status: Sporadic
  Useful websites:  
           
    WRLFMD
batch no.

Date
received

Type Virus isolates Topotype Strain
  WRLFMD-2005-00022 22/08/2005 SAT 2 BOT/1/2005
BOT/2/2005
BOT/3/2005
BOT/4/2005
BOT/5/2005
BOT/6/2005
BOT/7/2005
BOT/8/2005
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
  WRLFMD-2006-00013 11/05/2006 SAT 2 BOT/1/2006
BOT/5/2006
BOT/8/2006
-
-
-
-
-
-
  WRLFMD-2006-00019 05/07/2006 SAT 1 BOT/12/2006
BOT/13/2006
BOT/14/2006
BOT/15/2006
BOT/16/2006
BOT/17/2006
BOT/18/2006
WZ
WZ
WZ
WZ
WZ
WZ
WZ
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
  WRLFMD-2006-00034 08/12/2006 SAT 1 BOT/20/2006*
BOT/22/2006*
WZ
WZ
-
-
  WRLFMD-2006-00034 08/12/2006 SAT 2 BOT/24/2006* - -
  WRLFMD-2007-00160 13/11/2007 SAT 2 BOT/2/2007
BOT/3/2007
BOT/5/2007
BOT/6/2007
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
  - WRLFMD-2007-00160 13/11/2007 FMDV-GD BOT/4/2007 nd nd
  - WRLFMD-2008-00003 11/02/2008 NVD none - -
  WRLFMD-2008-00010 10/04/2008 SAT 2 BOT/6/2008
BOT/7/2008
BOT/8/2008
BOT/9/2008
BOT/10/2008
BOT/11/2008
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
  WRLFMD-2008-00025 01/08/2008 SAT 2 BOT/12/2008
BOT/13/2008
BOT/14/2008
BOT/15/2008
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
               
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IP, sequencing in progress
nd, not done
*, isolates from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
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