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Volume 29, Number 7—July 2023
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Lumpy Skin Disease Virus Infection in Free-Ranging Indian Gazelles (Gazella bennettii), Rajasthan, India

Shashi Bhushan Sudhakar, Niranjan MishraComments to Author , Semmannan Kalaiyarasu, Khusboo Ahirwar, Suchismita Chatterji, Omprakash Parihar, Vijendra Pal Singh, and Aniket Sanyal
Author affiliations: ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal, India (S.B. Sudhakar, N. Mishra, S. Kalaiyarasu, K. Ahirwar, V.P. Singh, A. Sanyal); Regional Disease Diagnostic Centre, Bikaner, India (S. Chatterji, O. Parihar)

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Results of GPCR nucleotide sequence alignment of lumpy skin disease virus infection in free-ranging Indian gazelles (Gazella bennettii), Rajasthan, India*

Sample no. Virus strain GenBank accession no. 12-nt deletion of in GPCR (96–107)
1 Indian Gazelle/IND/LSDV/BKN-6/2022 OP893960 Y
2 Cattle/IND/LSDV/BKN-2 OP893958 Y
3 Cattle/IND/LSDV/L06/2022 SRX17592135 N
4 Cattle/IND/LSDV/L09/2022 SRX17592137 N
5 Cattle/LSDV/IND/ODI/5RK_LT/2019 MW452639 N
6 Cattle/LSDV/IND/ODI/77BP-LT/2019 MW452646 N
7 Cattle/LSDV/IND/WB/JS9_LT/2019 MW452649 N
8 Cattle/LSDV/Bangladesh/Dhaka/2019 MT448698 N
9 Cattle/LSDV/Kenya/KSGP-O240/Kenyavac KJ818281 N
10 Cattle/LSDV/Turkey/Pendik/2014 MN995838 Y
11 Cattle/LSDV/Serbia/Bujanovac/2016 KY702007 Y
12 Cattle/LSDV/Kazakhstan/Kubash/2016 MN642592 Y
13 Cattle/LSDV/Greece/Evros/2015 KY829023 Y
14 Cattle/ South Africa/OBP vaccine KX764645 N
15 Cattle/South Africa/Herbivac vaccine KX764644 N
16 Cattle/LSDV/South Africa/SIS-Lumpyvax Vaccine KX764643 N
17 Cattle/LSDV/Russia/Saratov/2017 MH646674 N
18 Cattle/LSDV/Russia/Udmurthiya/2019 MT134042 N
19 Cattle/LSDV/ Kenya/1958 MNO72619 N
20 Cattle/LSDV/Russia/Dagestan/2015 MH893760 Y
21 Springbok/LSDV/South Africa/RSA/06/2011 FJ869374 Y
22 Cattle/LSDV/Kenya/Neethling Warmaths LW AF409137 Y
23 Cattle/LSDV/Egypt/AHRI21/2019 MN271744 Y
24 Cattle/LSDV/Kenya/Neethling/2490 AF325528 N
25 Cattle/LSDV/China/Xinjiang/2019 MN598006 N
26 Cattle/LSDV/Kenya/KS-1 KJ818283 N
27 Giraffe/LSDV/Vietnam/2021 MZ966326 N
28 SPPVaccine/India/Ranipet vaccine KF495236 N
29 SPPV/Turkey/Vaccine MN072631 N
30 GTPV/India/ Uttarkashi/Vaccine KF495242 N
31 GTPV/Iran/Gorgan/Vaccine KX576657 N

*Samples 1 and 2 were those from this study. Multiple sequence alignment was conducted by using MEGA version 7.0 (12). GTPV, goatpox virus; GPCR, G-protein-coupled-chemokine-like receptor (LSDV011); SPPV, sheeppox virus.

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