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A highly contagious viral disease of domesticated and wild cloven-hoofed animals with the potential to cause enormous economic losses. It is...

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Figure 1.Mouth of a steer with foot-and-mouth disease lesions on the tongue, along the lower gum, and inside the lower lip.

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Figure 2.Schematic diagram of the capsid of a foot-and- mouth disease virion. The four structural proteins, VP1–4 (also called 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D), make up a protein subunit or protomer. Five protomers join to form a pentamer, and a capsid is an assembly of 12 protomers. VP4 (1A) is located internally beneath the other three proteins.

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