Dr Don King

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Group Leader

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

Bo L L, Lwin K S, Ungvanijban S, Knowles N J, Wadsworth J, King D P, Abila R, Qiu Y (2019)

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks due to an exotic serotype Asia 1 virus in Myanmar in 2017

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 66 (2) , 1067-1072

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13112

Souley Kouato B, De Clercq K, Abatih E, Dal Pozzo F, King D P, Thys E, Marichatou H, Saegerman C (2018)

Review of epidemiological risk models for foot-and-mouth disease: Implications for prevention strategies with a focus on Africa

PLoS One 13 (12) , e0208296

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208296

Bachanek-Bankowska K, Di Nardo A, Wadsworth J, Mioulet V, Pezzoni G, Grazioli S, Brocchi E, Kafle S C, Hettiarachchi R, Kumarawadu P L, Eldaghayes I M, Dayhum A S, Meenowa D, Sghaier S, Madani H, Abouchoaib N, Hoang B H, Vu P P, Dukpa K, Gurung R B, Tenzin S, Wernery U, Panthumart A, Seeyo K B, Linchongsubongkoch W, Relmy A, Bakkali-Kassimi L, Scherbakov A, King D P, Knowles N J (2018)

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of pandemic foot-and-mouth disease viruses: the impact of recombination within the emerging O/ME-SA/Ind-2001 lineage

Scientific Reports 8 , 14693

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32693-8

Pezzoni G, Bregoli A, Grazioli S, Barbieri I, Madani H, Omani A, Sadaoui H, Bouayed N, Wadsworth J, Bachanek-Bankowska K, Knowles N J, King D P, Brocchi E (2018)

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks due to an exotic virus serotype A lineage (A/AFRICA/G-IV) in Algeria in 2017

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 66 (1) , 7-13

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13017

Shimmon G, Kotecha A, Ren J, Asfor A S, Newman J, Berryman S, Cottam E M, Gold S, Tuthill T J, King D P, Brocchi E, King A M Q, Owens R, Fry E E, Stuart D I, Burman A, Jackson T (2018)

Generation and characterisation of recombinant FMDV antibodies: Applications for advancing diagnostic and laboratory assays

PLoS ONE 13 (8) , e0201853

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201853

Armson B, Mioulet V, Doel C, Madi M, Parida S, Lemire K A, Holder D J, Das A, McIntosh M T, King D P (2018)

Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus in milk samples by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction: optimisation and evaluation of a high-throughput screening method with potential for disease surveillance

Veterinary Microbiology 223 , 189-194

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2018.07.024

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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

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks due to an exotic serotype Asia 1 virus in Myanmar in 2017

Review of epidemiological risk models for foot-and-mouth disease: Implications for prevention strategies with a focus on Africa

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of pandemic foot-and-mouth disease viruses: the impact of recombination within the emerging O/ME-SA/Ind-2001 lineage

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks due to an exotic virus serotype A lineage (A/AFRICA/G-IV) in Algeria in 2017

Generation and characterisation of recombinant FMDV antibodies: Applications for advancing diagnostic and laboratory assays

Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus in milk samples by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction: optimisation and evaluation of a high-throughput screening method with potential for disease surveillance

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