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

Casey-Bryars M, Reeve R, Bastola U, Knowles N J, Auty H, Bachanek-Bankowska K, Fowler V L, Fyumagwa R, Kazwala R, Kibona T, King A, King D P, Lankester F, Ludi A B, Lugelo A, Maree F F, Mshanga D, Ndhlovu G, Parekh K, Paton D J, Perry B, Wadsworth J, Parida S, Haydon D T, Marsh T L, Cleaveland S, Lembo T (2018)

Waves of endemic foot-and-mouth disease in eastern Africa suggest feasibility of proactive vaccination approaches

Nature Ecology and Evolution 2 (9) , 1449-1457

Publisher’s version: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0636-x

Bachanek-Bankowska K, Di Nardo A, Wadsworth J, Henry E K M, Parlak U, Timina A, Mischenko A, Qasim I A, Abdollahi D, Sultana M, Hossain M A, King D P, Knowles N J (2018)

Foot-and-mouth disease in the Middle East caused by an A/ASIA/G-VII virus lineage, 2015-2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases 24 (6) , 1073-1078

Publisher’s version: https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2406.170715

Lasecka-Dykes L, Wright C F, Di Nardo A, Logan G, Mioulet V, Jackson T, Tuthill T J, Knowles N J, King D P (2018)

Full genome sequencing reveals new Southern African Territories genotypes bringing us closer to understanding true variability of foot-and-mouth disease virus in Africa

Viruses 10 (4) , 192

Publisher’s version: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v10040192

Brito B, Pauszek S J, Hartwig E J, Smoliga G R, Vu L T, Dong P V, Stenfeldt C, Rodriguez L L, King D P, Knowles N J, Bachanek-Bankowska K, Long N T, Dung D H, Arzt J (2018)

A traditional evolutionary history of foot-and-mouth disease viruses in Southeast Asia challenged by analyses of non-structural protein coding sequences

Scientific Reports 8 (1) , 6472

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24870-6

Ferretti L, Di Nardo A, Singer B, Lasecka-Dykes L, Logan G, Wright C F, Pe?rez-Marti?n E, King D P, Tuthill T J, Ribeca P (2018)

Within-host recombination in the foot-and-mouth disease virus genome

Viruses 10 (5) , 221

Publisher’s version: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v10050221

Waters R, Ludi A B, Fowler V L, Wilsden G, Browning C, Gubbins S, Statham B, Bin-Tarif A, Mioulet V, King D J, Colenutt C, Brown E, Hudelet P, King D P (2018)

Efficacy of a high-potency multivalent foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine in cattle against heterologous challenge with a field virus from the emerging A/ASIA/G-VII lineage

Vaccine 36 (14) , 1901-1907

Publisher’s version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.02.016

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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

Waves of endemic foot-and-mouth disease in eastern Africa suggest feasibility of proactive vaccination approaches

Foot-and-mouth disease in the Middle East caused by an A/ASIA/G-VII virus lineage, 2015-2016

Full genome sequencing reveals new Southern African Territories genotypes bringing us closer to understanding true variability of foot-and-mouth disease virus in Africa

A traditional evolutionary history of foot-and-mouth disease viruses in Southeast Asia challenged by analyses of non-structural protein coding sequences

Within-host recombination in the foot-and-mouth disease virus genome

Efficacy of a high-potency multivalent foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine in cattle against heterologous challenge with a field virus from the emerging A/ASIA/G-VII lineage

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