Dr Don King

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Diagnostics, Epidemiology, Virology

Dr Donald King is Head of the Vesicular Disease Reference Laboratory Group and leads the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) World Reference Laboratory for foot-and-mouth disease (WRLFMD). He has a background in veterinary virology and immunology (University of Leeds, University of California, Davis, USA), and has research interests in understanding the processes that drive the evolution of positive-stranded genome viruses such as foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV).

From a practical perspective, work within the group also develops and applies new technologies for the detection and characterisation of important livestock disease agents such as FMDV. These methods underpin the routine diagnostic work of the FMD Reference Laboratory at The Pirbright Institute and are also used to monitor the global patterns of disease, and to recognise new emerging viral lineages that pose threats to the UK and Europe.

Don is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Virological Methods and participates in European collaborative research projects that aim to develop new diagnostic tools (Rapidia-Field), and to use next-generation sequencing approaches for molecular epidemiology.

Don is the OIE expert for foot-and-mouth disease and swine vesicular disease.

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Pirbright study identifies risk factors that drive FMD outbreaks in Asia

Pirbright reports first case of foot-and-mouth disease virus in dogs after eating infected meat

Science Spotlight: Dr Don King

Pirbright case study shows pooled milk can be used for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

Pirbright demonstrate that testing milk samples could enhance foot-and-mouth disease surveillance in the field

Asfor A, Howe N, Grazioli S, Berryman S, Parekh K, Wilsden G, Ludi A, King D, Parida S, Brocchi E, Tuthill T (2020)

Detection of bovine antibodies against a conserved capsid epitope as the basis of a novel universal serological test for foot-and-mouth disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology 58 (6)

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01527-19

Wood B A, Mioulet V, Henry E, Gray A, Azhar M, Thapa B, Diederich S, Hoffmann B, Beer M, King D P, Eschbaumer M (2020)

Inactivation of foot-and-mouth disease virus A/IRN/8/2015 with commercially available lysis buffers

Journal of Virological Methods 278 , 113835

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.113835

Lignereux L, Chaber A L, Saegerman C, Heath L, Knowles N J, Wadsworth J, Mioulet V, King D P (2020)

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in captive scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases Early view

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13502

Ulziibat G, Maygmarsuren O, Khishgee B, Basan G, Sandag B, Ruuragc S, Limon G, Wilsden G, Browning C, King D P, Ludi A B, Lyons N A (2020)

Immunogenicity of imported foot-and-mouth vaccines in different species in Mongolia

Vaccine 38 (7) , 1708-1714

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.12.053

Dekker A, Sanz-Bernardo B, Singanallur N B, Ludi A B, Horsington J, Eble P L, King D P, Vosloo W (2020)

Cross-protection induced by a A/MAY/97 emergency vaccine against intra-serotype heterologous challenge with a foot-and-mouth disease virus from the A/ASIA/G-VII lineage

Vaccines 8 (1) , 24

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010024

Armson B, Di Nardo A, Nyaguthii D M, Sanz-Bernardo B, Kitala P M, Chepkwony E, Mioulet V, King D P, Lyons N A (2020)

Utilising milk from pooling facilities as a novel approach for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases Early view

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13487

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Vesicular Disease Reference Laboratory

Dr Don King

Pirbright study identifies risk factors that drive FMD outbreaks in Asia

Pirbright reports first case of foot-and-mouth disease virus in dogs after eating infected meat

Science Spotlight: Dr Don King

Pirbright case study shows pooled milk can be used for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

Pirbright demonstrate that testing milk samples could enhance foot-and-mouth disease surveillance in the field

Detection of bovine antibodies against a conserved capsid epitope as the basis of a novel universal serological test for foot-and-mouth disease

Inactivation of foot-and-mouth disease virus A/IRN/8/2015 with commercially available lysis buffers

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in captive scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)

Immunogenicity of imported foot-and-mouth vaccines in different species in Mongolia

Cross-protection induced by a A/MAY/97 emergency vaccine against intra-serotype heterologous challenge with a foot-and-mouth disease virus from the A/ASIA/G-VII lineage

Utilising milk from pooling facilities as a novel approach for foot-and-mouth disease surveillance

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