Phologane_267-277.indd INTRODUCTION Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, highly contagious viral infection of domestic and wild clo- ven-hoofed animals. Although mortality in adult ani- mals is generally low, the production losses when intensively farmed livestock are infected can be sig- nificant. The aetiological agent of this disease, the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), belongs to the Aphthovirus genus of the Picornaviridae family. The virion consists of an icosahedral shell com- posed of 60 copies each of four structural proteins, VP1, VP2, VP3 and VP4 surrounding a single- stranded positive-sense RNA genome of approxi- 267 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 75:267–277 (2008) Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle during a four-month period in 2001 in Limpopo Province, South Africa B.S. PHOLOGANE1, 2†, R.M. DWARKA1, D.T. HAYDON3, L.J. GERBER2 and W. VOSLOO1, 4* ABSTRACT PHOLOGANE, B.S, DWARKA, R.M, HAYDON, D.T., GERBER, L.J. & VOSLOO, W. 2008. Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle during a four- month period in 2001 in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veter inary Re- search, 75:267–277 Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, highly contagious viral infection of domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus that has a high rate of nucleotide mutation and amino acid substitution. In southern Africa the South African Territories (SAT) 1-3 sero- types of FMD virus are maintained by large numbers of African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer), which provide a potential source of infection for domestic livestock and wild animals. During February 2001, an outbreak of SAT-2 was recorded in cattle in the FMD control zone of South Africa, adjacent to the Kruger National Park (KNP). They had not been vaccinated against the disease since they form the buffer between the vaccination and free zones but in the face of the outbreak, they were vaccinated as part of the control measures to contain the disease. The virus was, however, isolated from some of them on several occasions up to May 2001. These isolates were characterized to determine the rate of genetic change in the main antigenic determinant, the 1D/2A gene. Nucleotide substitutions at 12 different sites were identified of which five led to amino acid changes. Three of these occurred in known antigenic sites, viz. the GH-loop and C-terminal part of the protein, and two of these have previously been shown to be subject to positive selection. Likelihood models indicated that the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous changes among the outbreak sequences recovered from cattle was four times higher than among comparable sequences isolated from wildlife, suggest- ing that the virus may be under greater selective pressure during rapid transmission events. Keywords: 1D (VP1) gene, cattle, foot-and-mouth disease, mutation rate, SAT-2 * Author to whom correspondence is to be directed. E-mail: vosloow@arc.agric.za 1 Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary In- sti tute, Exotic Diseases Division, Private Bag X05, Onder ste- poort, 0110 South Africa 2 Department of Biomedical Science, Tshwane University of Tech nology, Private Bag X680, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa 3 Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK 4 Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Vet er- inary Science, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onder- stepoort, 0110 South Africa † Deceased Accepted for publication 2 July 2008—Editor 268 Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle in South Africa mately 8 500 nucleotides. Seven immunologically distinct serotypes (A, O, C, SAT-1, SAT-2, SAT-3 and Asia 1) have been identified, of which the South African Territories (SAT) types 1–3, are endemic in sub-Saharan Africa (Brooksby 1982). Historically, the SAT-2 serotype has been responsible for almost half of FMD outbreaks in domestic animals in south- ern Africa (Thomson & Bastos 2004). Eradication of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa is not possible owing to the presence of large numbers of free-living African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer), which are efficient maintenance hosts for the SAT types of FMDV and provide a potential source of infection for domestic livestock and wild animals (Thom son & Bastos 2004; Vosloo & Thomson 2004). These viruses can persist in an individual buffalo and in an isolated herd for at least 5 and 24 years, respectively (Condy, Hedger, Hamblin & Barnett 1985). The use of fencing to separate buffaloes and live- stock as well as vaccination of cattle with viruses that are antigenically closely related to those carried by nearby buffalo form an integral part of FMD con- trol in southern African countries (Hunter 1998; Brück ner, Vosloo, Du Plessis, Kloeck, Connoway, Ek ron, Weaver, Dickason, Schreuder, Marais & Moga jane 2002). Despite these control measures, outbreaks of FMD do occur if some of the control measures are compromised, one of which, the SAT- 2 outbreak reported here, occurred in 2001 on farms in the Limpopo Province adjacent to the Kruger Na- tional Park (KNP), home to free-ranging, infected African buffaloes. The disease remains a major economic concern for the livestock industry in many developing countries and a continued threat to countries that are disease free due to its potential negative impact on trade in agricultural products. Thus, rapid identification of the serotypes of FMDV that are responsible for an outbreak is essential for selection of an appropriate emergency vaccine and to trace the origin and spread of an outbreak (Callens & De Clercq 1997). Genetic characterization of outbreak strains is also important to determine if variants exist in the field, especially for the SAT types in which it has been shown that more significant genetic variation occurs compared to other serotypes (Bastos, Haydon, Fors- berg, Knowles, Anderson, Bengis, Nel & Thomson 2001; Bastos, Anderson, Bengis, Keet, Winterbach & Thomson 2003a; Bastos, Haydon, Sangare, Bos- hoff, Edrich & Thomson 2003b; Sahle, Dwarka, Ven- ter & Vosloo 2007; Sahle, Dwarka, Ven ter & Vosloo 2007a, b). Foot-and-mouth disease viral RNA consists of a sin- gle open reading frame flanked by two non-coding regions both predicted to exhibit complex secondary structures (Mason, Grubman & Baxt 2003). Because RNA viruses lack proof-reading capacity, their ge- nomes undergo high mutation rates, shown to be between 10–5 and 10–4 base mis-incorporations per nucleotide site per genome replication (Holland, Spind ler, Horodyski, Grabeu, Nichol & Vande Pol 1982; Drake 1993; Drake & Holland 1999). This, to- gether with a very short generation time, can result in as much as 0.5–1.5 % of the genome changing each year (Haydon, Samuel & Knowles 2001b). The analysis of RNA sequences from field isolates indi- cated that fixation of mutations occurs along the en- tire FMDV genome, but mutations are preferentially accumulated in structural regions, which are the tar- gets of selective pressures (Martin, Nunez, Sobrino & Dopazo 1998; Fares, Moya, Escarmis, Baranowski, Domingo & Barrio 2001; Haydon, Bastos, Samuel & Knowles 2001a). The high antigenic diversity of FMDV stems from its extreme genetic heterogeneity (Mateu, Martinez, Rocha, Andreu, Parejo, Giralt, Sobrino & Domingo 1989). Antigenic variants can be selected for in immune or partially immune hosts (Gebauer, De la Torre, Gomes, Maten, Barahona, Tiraboshi, Berg- man, De Mello & Domingo 1988), although Diez, Mateu & Domingo (1989) reported that antigenic variants may accumulate over time even in the ab- sence of antibody selection. Studies have shown that cattle and buffalo carriers (subclinically infected animals) may be a significant source of genetic var- iation (Salt, Samuel & Kitching 1996; Vosloo, Bas- tos, Kirkbride, Esterhuysen, Janse van Rensburg, Bengis, Keet & Thomson 1996; Vosloo, De Klerk, Boshoff, Botha, Dwarka, Keet & Haydon 2007). In particular, capsid protein VP1, encoded by the 1D gene, greatly contributes to the antigenicity of FMDV (Mateu et al. 1989; Mateu, Camarero, Giralt, Andreu & Domingo 1995) due to the existence of an immu- no-dominant site, located between beta-strands G and H (the G-H loop) of VP1 which also acts as the cell receptor recognition site (Kitson, McCahon & Belsham 1990). Other sites on the capsid involving VP2 and VP3 also play a role in the antigenic char- acteristics of the virus (Stave, Card, Morgan & Va- kharia 1988; Kitson et al. 1990). During February 2001 an FMD outbreak was de- tected in cattle in the buffer zone in Limpopo Prov- ince, Republic of South Africa affecting various dip tanks in the communal farming district. The outbreak followed severe flooding in the area that damaged 269 R.M. PHOLOGANE et al. the game fence surrounding the KNP and buffaloes were observed on the communal farms. This study concerned the investigation of the genetic variation accumulating in the 1D gene among 11 SAT-2 iso- lates obtained from a single outbreak over 111 days. Sequencing of the full-length 1D gene of these SAT-2 outbreak strains enabled us to determine the posi- tion of substitutions in the main antigenic determi- nant. In response to the outbreak, immediate wide- spread vaccination of cattle herds was conducted. In order to examine whether vaccination resulted in a change in selective pressures on the virus the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous changes among the outbreak sequences were compared with those from closely related strains isolated from wildlife in the adjoining KNP. MATERIALS AND METHODS Viruses included in this study Eleven viruses were isolated from bovine epithelial tissue samples taken from clinically affected ani- mals on various farms involved in the SAT-2 out- break over 111 days (Table 1). These samples were first propagated on primary pig kidney (PK) cells and, if necessary, passaged on IB-RS-2 (Instituto Biologico Rim Suino) cells. Once positive cultures were obtained, the viruses were stored in glycerol at –70 °C for further characterization. Twelve SAT-2 1D sequences were selected from previous publica- tions for phylogenetic and other analysis. Table 1 summarizes all relevant information regarding the viruses used in this study. RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis and genomic amplification Genomic RNA was extracted from cultured viruses by a modified silica/guanidinium thiocyanate nucleic acid extraction method (Boom, Sol, Salimans, Jan- sen, Wert heim-Van Dillen & Van der Noordaa 1990) and reverse transcribed using AMV-RT (Pro mega) and the 2A/B junction primer, P1, of Beck & Stroh- maier (1987) as described by Bastos (1998). Genomic amplification of the 1D gene was per- formed using a forward primer binding within the 1C gene (VP3) termed VP3-AB (5′ CAC TGC TAC CAC TCR GAG TG 3′) (Bastos et al. 2003b) and a re- verse primer, P1 (5′ GAA GGG CCC AGG GTT GGA CTC 3′) which is complimentary to the highly conserved 2A/B junction site (Beck & Strohmaier 1987), resulting in a product of approximately 880 bp. PCR was performed in a 50 μℓ volume in the presence of 3 μℓ cDNA, 200 μM dNTPs, 25 pmol of each primer, 1 x Taq buffer (Roche) and 2.5 U of Taq polymerase (Roche). Thermal cycling profile included an initial denaturation step at 96 °C for 1 min, followed by 30 cycles of denaturation at 96 °C for 20 s, annealing at 56 °C for 30 s and extension at 70 °C for 30 s. PCR product purification and nucleotide sequence determination The PCR products of 880 bp were excised from the 1.5 % agarose gel and purified using the QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit (Qiagen). Sequencing of the full length 1D gene (648 bp) was performed using the Big Dye® version 3.1 cycle sequencing ready reac- tion kit and the ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyser (Applied Biosystems). Two independent cycle se- quencing reactions were performed per sample us- ing the sense and anti-sense primers utilized in the PCR. Phylogenetic analysis Nucleotide sequences were trimmed to correspond to the full length 1D gene (648 bp) and six nucleo- tides of the 2A gene of all SAT-2 outbreak strains and aligned with published sequences (obtained from Genbank, Table 1) using the DAPSA program (Harley 2001). Phylogenetic trees were constructed using maximum likelihood methods (Swofford 2001) assuming an HKY85 model (Hasegawa, Kishino & Yano 1985) of nucleotide substitution with rate het- erogeneity. Support for the phylogenetic groups within the tree was estimated from 1 000 bootstrap re-samples using the neighbour-joining method (Swofford 2001) with the same model of nucleotide substitution. Statistical parsimony (implemented in the program TCS [Clement, Posada & Crandell 2000]) was uti- lized to reconstruct the sequence of mutations throughout the course of the outbreak. This parsimo- ny-based algorithm outputs a rooted network indi- cating likely haplotype transitions. The underlying population genetic algorithm on which the statistical basis of the output is determined is complex and described in detail elsewhere (Templeton, Crandall & Sing 1992) and is particularly suited for applica- tion to very closely related sequences. The ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous sub- stitutions (dn/ds) for the sequences detailed in Table 1 was calculated using the program Codeml (Yang 1997) which approximates the dn/ds ratio over the estimated phylogeny. Different dn/ds ratios over dif- 270 Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle in South Africa ferent parts of the tree were estimated. Because the viruses in this study were replicating in vaccinated hosts, the hypothesis that they might be under more intense selective pressure than viruses in the rest of the phylogeny was tested and therefore two dn/ds ratios were fitted: one to non-outbreak strains, and the other to the monophyletic group constituting the outbreak strains (indicated in Fig. 1). Since the sim- pler model is nested within the more complex mod- el, a likelihood-ratio rest (LRT) could be used to de- termine the level of support for the more complex model. RESULTS Phylogenetic analysis The maximum-likelihood tree showed that the 11 outbreak sequences (SAR/1/01 to SAR/11/01) were all closely related to each other and grouped in a TABLE 1 Summary of SAT-2 serotype isolates included in this study Virus designation Country of origin Date of sampling Place of origin Grid reference Species GenBank accession no. Days post outbreak SAR/1/01♠ RSA 01/02/2001 Orinoco DT, LP 31°05’ E–24°45’ S Bov AY442903 1 SAR/2/01♦ RSA 01/02/2001 Orinoco DT, LP 31°05’ E–24°45’ S Bov AY442904 1 SAR/3/01♦ RSA 01/02/2001 Orinoco DT, LP 31°05’ E–24°45’ S Bov AY442905 1 SAR/4/01♦ RSA 01/02/2001 Orinoco DT, LP 31°05’ E–24°45’ S Bov AY442906 1 SAR/5/01♦ RSA 06/02/2001 Orinoco DT, LP 31°05’ E–24°45’ S Bov AY442907 6 SAR/6/01♦ RSA 04/02/2001 Newington, LP 31°18’ E–24°48’ S Bov AY442908 4 SAR/7/01♠ RSA 05/02/2001 Dwarsloop, LP 31°06’ E–24°47’ S Bov AY442909 5 SAR/8/01♦ RSA 05/02/2001 Dwarsloop, LP 31°06’ E–24°47’ S Bov AY442910 5 SAR/9/01♦ RSA 05/02/2001 Dwarsloop, LP 31°06’ E–24°47’ S Bov AY442911 5 SAR/10/01♠ RSA 22/05/2001 Craigieburn, LP 30°58’ E–24°40’ S Bov AY442912 111 SAR/11/01◊ RSA 22/05/2001 Craigieburn, LP 30°58’ E–24°40’ S Bov AY442913 111 KNP/18/95 RSA 1995 Mondzweni 31°38’ E–24°34’ S Buf AF367118* – KNP/31/95 RSA 1995 Mondzweni 31°38’ E–24°34’ S Buf AF367119* – KNP/19/89 RSA 1989 Ripape 31°37’ E–24°44’ S Buf AF367110* – KNP/183/91 RSA 1991 Water Affairs weir 31°56’ E–25°08’ S Buf AF367112* – KNP/32/92 RSA 1992 Boyela Vlakteplaas 31°17’ E–22°54’ S Buf AF367115* – KNP/18/88 RSA 1988 Orpen gate 31°24’ E–24°28’ S Imp AF367138* – KNP/19/88 RSA 1988 Rabelais Dam 31°30’ E–24°27’ S Imp AF367106* – KNP/20/88 RSA 1988 Timbavati River 31°28’ E–24°26’ S Imp AF367107* – ZIM/267/98 Zim 1998 Chizarira 28°00’ E–17°47’ S Buf AF367130* – ZAM/7/96 Zam 1996 Mulanga 25°30’ E–17°10’ S Buf AF367120* – ZAM/10/96 Zam 1996 Mulanga 25°30’ E–17°10’ S Buf AF367121* – BOT/18/98 Bot 1998 Nxaraga 23°15’ E–19°40’ S Buf AF367123* – RSA = Republic of South Africa; LP = Limpopo Province; Zim = Zimbabwe; Zam = Zambia; Bot = Botswana; Bov = bovine; Buf = buffalo; Imp = impala; – = not applicable; passage history of viruses (PK = primary pig kidney cells, RS = IBRS-2 cell line): ♠PK1, RS1; ♦PK1; ◊PK1,RS2 * Bastos et al. 2003b 271 R.M. PHOLOGANE et al. KNP/19/89/buffalo KNP/18/95/buffalo KNP/31/95/buffalo KNP/18/88/impala KNP/20/88/impala KNP/19/88/impala KNP/183/91/buffalo KNP/32/92/buffalo ZAM/7/96/buffalo ZAM/10/96/buffalo BOT/18/98/buffalo ZIM/267/98/buffalo SAR/8/01/cattle SAR/9/01/cattle SAR/3/01/cattle SAR/4/01/cattle SAR/5/01/cattle SAR/6/01/cattle SAR/7/01/cattle SAR/1/01/cattle SAR/10/01/cattle SAR/11/01/cattle SAR/2/01/cattle 0.1 100 100 96 65 99 80 100 96 99 A 100 FIG. 1 The maximum likelihood phylogeny of the outbreak sequences and a number of closely related sequences from wildlife obtained in the KNP, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia. Levels of bootstrap support (estimated using the neighbor-joining method) are indicated on the branches. The ‘A’ indicates the position downstream from which a different dn/ds ratio was fitted to the rest of the tree 272 Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle in South Africa single cluster with 100 % bootstrap support (Fig. 1). The outbreak isolates grouped with viruses previ- ously obtained from the KNP during an outbreak in impalas in 1988 (KNP/18-20/88) and isolates ob- tained from buffaloes in the park between 1989 and 1995 (KNP/19/89, KNP/18/95 and KNP/31/95) (12– 13 % nucleotide differences). This cluster was sup- ported by 99 % bootstrap. The buffalo isolates from Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana grouped accord- ing to topotype patterns previously observed for SAT-2 (Fig. 1; Bastos et al. 2003b). The estimated transition:transversion ratio for this set of sequences was 2.51:1, and the shape parameter for the ϒ-dis- tribution governing rate heterogeneity was estimat- ed to be 0.27. Mutation analysis The coding region included in the analysis contained 648 nucleotides from the 1D/2A gene, translated into 216 amino acid residues (214 aa 1D and 2 aa of 2A, Fig. 2). Three of the initial isolates (SAR/2- 4/01) had 100 % identical nucleotide sequences and were assumed to represent the ancestral state. On the same day and the same farm, Orinoco, SAR/1/01 was isolated that differed by 0.309 % from the other isolates. On Day 4, SAR/6/01, isolated on the farm Newington, differed by 0.154 %, while the three Dwarsloop isolates (SAR/7-9/01) obtained at Day 5 differed by 0.154 %, 0.463 % and 0.309 %, respec- tively, from the original viruses. SAR/5/01 was iso- FIG. 2 Sequence alignments of 216 amino acids corresponding to the 1D/2A gene of the 11 SAT-2 outbreak strains obtained during a single outbreak that affected various farms during 2001. Cell attachment site of the viruses (RGD), in the G-H loop is highlighted and underlined. ‘ .’ indicates amino acids identical to SAR/2/01 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 SAR/2/01 TTSAGEGADV VTTDPSTHGG QVKEKRRMHT DVAFVLDRFT HVHTNKTTFN VDLMDTNSKT LVGALLRAST YYFCDLEIAC SAR/1/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/3/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/4/O1 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/5/01 .......... .......... ......L... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/6/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/7/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/8/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/9/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/10/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/11/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 SAR/2/01 VGEHKRVYWQ PNGAPRTTQL GDNPMVFSNK GVTRFAVPYT APHRLLSTVY NGECKYTASV TAIRGDRAVL AAKYTNTKHT SAR/1/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ....E..... .......... .......... SAR/3/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/4/O1 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/5/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/6/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/7/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/8/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/9/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/10/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... SAR/11/01 ..K....... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2A 170 180 190 200 210 215 SAR/2/01 LPSTFNFGHV TADASVDVYY RMKRAELYCP RPLLPAYDHA NRDRFDAPIG VEKQ LC SAR/1/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/3/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/4/O1 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/5/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/6/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... S......... .... .. SAR/7/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A... .. SAR/8/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/9/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/10/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. SAR/11/01 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .... .. 273 R.M. PHOLOGANE et al. lated at Day 6 from Orinoco and similarly differed by 0.154 %. On Day 111 two isolates were obtained from Craigieburn and differed by 0.309 % and 0.463 % from the ancestral state. The TCS analysis of the nucleotide sequences (Fig. 3) indicated that this divergence probably accumu- lated as a result of 12 independent mutations (11 in VP1 and 1 in the 2A gene). Five of these mutations resulted in non-synonymous amino acid changes: position 27: G-T, Arginine to Leucine (SAR/5/01); 83: G-A, Glutamic acid to Lysine (SAR/11/01); 135: A-G, Lysine to Glutamic acid (SAR/1/01); 201: A-G, Asparagine to Serine (SAR/6/01); and 211: T-C, Valine to Alanine (SAR/7/01). The latter three of these changes arose in known antigenic sites, the G-H loop (135) and the C-terminus region (201 to 211) (Kitson et al. 1990). Al these amino acid sub- stitutions were due to nucleotide differences in the second position of the codon, except the change on amino acid position 135, which occurred in the fist position of the codon. None of the changes became fixed in isolates over time. The TCS analysis (Fig. 3) shows that one variant (SAR/1/01) was present within the first 3 days of the outbreak together with a theoretical genotype not sampled. This latter variant was not isolated again and may have been a dead-end for this particular virus. The ancestral virus seemed to have spread to other farms. Between Days 4–110 five more vari- ants were sampled of which three (SAR/5-7/01) re- sulted from three separate direct changes from the ancestral state, and two viruses (SAR/8-9/01) rep- resented viruses arising from genotypes that were not sampled (Fig. 3). At Day 111 two viruses were isolated, one resulted from an absent genotype (SAR/10/01), while the last isolate (SAR/11/01) was FIG. 3 The rooted cladogram supported by statistical parsimony in the program TCS. The square indicates the identified root of the genealogy. Small circles indicate genotypes that were not sampled. Nucleotide substitutions are labelled on the arrows (those in bold are non-synonymous). Where a genotype is removed from its putative ancestor by more than one mutational change, the order of these changes is unknown 93 403 602 632 80 336 C-T 465 247 489 648 291135 D a y s 1 – 3 D a y 1 1 1 SAR/8/01/cattle SAR/9/01/cattle SAR/5/01/cattle SAR/6/01/cattle SAR/7/01/cattle SAR/1/01/cattle SAR/10/01/cattleSAR/11/01/cattle G-T D a y s 4 – 1 1 0 SAR/2-04/01/cattle G-A C-T C-T C-T T-C T-C T-C T-C A-G A-G 274 Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle in South Africa related to SAR/10/01 and originated from a single difference between the two isolates. The overall average dn/ds ratio calculated in Codeml over the phylogeny shown in Fig. 1 was 0.070, indi- cating strong purifying selection. When two dn/ds ratios were fitted, one over the outbreak clade, and another for the rest of the tree, the dn/ds ratio for the main tree declined to 0.066, but increased to 0.264 in the outbreak clade. The LRT indicated that this more complex model was a significant improvement over the simpler model (χ2 = 4.1, P < 0.05) and sug- gested that the four-fold increase in the dn/ds ratio in the outbreak clade should be regarded as signifi- cant. DISCUSSION In the case of an FMD outbreak, rapid identification of the serotypes of FMDV that are responsible for the outbreak is essential for selection of an appropri- ate emergency vaccine and helps to trace the origin and spread of the outbreak (Callens & De Clercq 1997; Vosloo, Bastos & Boshoff 2006) as well as wildlife movements (Vosloo, Bastos, Michel & Thom- son 2001). South Africa experienced an outbreak caused by the Pan-Asian serotype O in 2000 (San- gare, Bastos, Marquardt, Venter, Vosloo & Thomson 2001) that was introduced by the illegal use of swill as pig feed (Brückner et al. 2002). This serotype does not occur in the buffalo populations in south- ern Africa and is therefore exotic to the region and had to be eradicated with urgency. The outbreak was finally controlled by stamping out, vaccination using an imported vaccine of known efficacy to the outbreak strain and strict quarantine measures, re- sulting in severe financial losses to both commercial and small scale farmers in the area. Implementation of control measures depends on accurate genetic characterization of the virus strain responsible for an outbreak. Phylogenetic analysis of the SAT-2 outbreak in 2001 revealed that all 11 virus samples collected from the infected premises clustered in one strongly supported clade, which was related to viruses iso- lated from buffaloes and impalas living in adjacent wildlife reserves, strongly suggesting that wildlife was the origin of the outbreak (Fig. 1). This clade has previously been shown to belong to a topotype that covers the geographical regions of north east- ern South Africa (KNP), south eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Bastos et al. 2003b). The same geographic areas form a topotype for SAT-1 (Bastos et al. 2001) and SAT-3 (Bastos et al. 2003b), re- spectively. The isolates from Zambia (ZAM/7/96 and ZAM/10/96) clustered together as did viruses from Botswana (BOT/18/98) and Zimbabwe (ZIM/267/98), in accordance with their previous description into two separate topotypes, albeit with overlapping dis- tribution ranges (Bastos et al. 2003b). The KNP/ south Zimbabwe/Mozambique topotype differs sig- nificantly from other topotypes in the region and the clustering profile of the outbreak isolates within this southern topotype, together with the outbreak’s proximity to the KNP, is a strong indication that the virus originated in the KNP. This hypothesis is sup- ported by the observation that fencing, constructed to prevent the co-migration of wildlife and cattle in the areas adjacent to the national park, was washed away, and had not been repaired at the time of the outbreak and that buffaloes were observed in the farming areas. The outbreak occurred in the buffer zone without vaccination and animals were therefore fully sus- ceptible to FMD infection. Although the first cases were found on 1 February 2001, the age of lesions on certain farms suggested that the outbreak had been ongoing for some time prior to that (E. Dyason, personal communication 2001). This could explain why a variant (SAR/1/01) was found on the farm Ori noco at Day 1. After diagnosing the outbreak, cat tle were vaccinated during the weeks of 5 Feb- ruary and 5 March 2001 with a trivalent vaccine con- taining SAT-1, SAT-2 and SAT-3 strains. Therefore, all the isolates acquired between Days 1–6 were most probably from unvaccinated animals and no immune pressure was present. The vaccination cover at Craigieburn was limited since the area is mountainous and it was difficult to find the animals during the vaccination campaigns. It was therefore not surprising when fresh lesions were found at Day 111 (22 May 2001), most probably in unvaccinated animals (information kindly supplied by E. Dyason). Although no samples were characterized between Days 6 and 111, it is clear that the disease had been spreading between farms in the intervening period. The antigenic relationship of the outbreak virus with the vaccine was acceptable with r1-values of 0.4 and 0.35 with the two vaccine strains, respectively (J.J. Esterhuysen, personal communication 2002). It was previously shown that a SAT-1 vaccine with similar r1-values to the outbreak strain protected pigs from needle infection (Cloete, Dungu, Van Staden, Ismail-Cassim & Vosloo 2008). There is therefore no reason to believe that the vaccine was not pro- tective and the outbreak was controlled using vac- cination and movement restrictions. The last clinical cases were observed on 30 May 2001. 275 R.M. PHOLOGANE et al. The 11 cattle outbreak isolates in this study accu- mulated 12 independent mutations (or changes at 1.85 % of sequenced sites) (Fig. 3) over 4 months, which is rapid compared to two previous studies of genetic change in buffaloes. Vosloo et al. (1996) showed a substitution rate of 1.64 % per year over a similar genetic region for a SAT-2 virus in carrier buffaloes and Vosloo et al. (2007) estimated a rate of 1.1 % per year in an outbreak of SAT-1 in buffalo that also led to the establishment of a carrier state. It is not known whether FMDV might evolve faster in cattle than buffaloes, or whether the faster rate of change observed in this study might have arisen as a result of vaccine induced selection pressure. It may also indicate that rates increase during trans- mission events compared to sequential isolates from carrier animals. The proportion of these substitutions that were non-synonymous is comparable between this study, 5/12, versus 15/25 in Vosloo et al. (1996). Interestingly, two of the observed non-synonymous changes (pos 135 in SAR/1/01 and 201 in SAR/6/01) are at sites previously identified to be subject to pos- itive selection (Haydon et al. 2001a). When a sepa- rate dn:ds ratio is estimated for branches of the phy- logeny associated with the recent outbreak in cattle, our analysis revealed it to be significantly higher (by a factor of 4) compared to that arising over the rest of the phylogeny. Such an increase may have oc- curred as a result of the change of host (from buf- falo to cattle), or the presence of vaccine selection, but it may also have arisen as a result of the differ- ent time-scales over which viral isolates were col- lected (111 days versus 13 years). All the isolates in this study were first propagated on cell culture to obtain sufficient material for amplifica- tion and sequencing (Table 1). This could have led to selection of variants that are better adapted to cell culture growth and could have an impact on the results. However, all isolates were subjected to the same regime of being isolated initially on one pas- sage of primary pig kidney cells, while SAR/1/01, SAR/7/01 and SAR/10/01 were also passaged once on IBRS-2 cells and SAR/11/01 was passaged twice on these cells. No nucleotide changes specific to the viruses passaged on IBRS-2 were observed (re- sults not shown) and the passage history should therefore not influence the results of this study. Three of the amino acid changes are in known anti- genic regions, SAR/1/01 at position 135 within the GH loop and SAR/6/01 (position 201) and SAR/8/01 (position 211) within the C-terminal region. We have not investigated antigenic differences using these cell passaged viruses to determine whether any of the changes lead to new antigenic variants. It was previously shown that genetic and antigenic chang- es could occur after cell passage but that the virus could also be remarkably stable over many cell pas- sages (Domingo, Dávila & Ortín 1980; Gonzalez, Saiz, Laor & Moore 1991; Meyer, Pacciarini, Hilyard, Ferrari, Vakharia, Donini, Brocchi & Molitor 1994). This study has demonstrated that nucleotide substi- tutions can arise sufficiently quickly in the 1D gene of FMDV and that genetic data can provide high resolution information on the disease transmission between farms. Information of this sort has high po- tential value in identifying elusive transmission routes of disease. 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