This paper describes three episodes of foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) that were detected during 2013–2015 in scimitar‐horned oryx (Oryx dammah ) (SHO), a large Sahelo‐Saharan antelope extinct in the wild housed in a wild ungulate breeding facility located 50 km east of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While no mortality attributable to FMD was noted in the population of nearly 4,000 SHO during two of the three outbreaks, the morbidity varied according to the circulating strains and seroconversion reached a plateau of 78.0% within two weeks and remained at this level for at least nine months. Partial or complete sequencing of the VP1 encoding region demonstrated that the three outbreaks were caused by three different FMDV lineages (O/ME‐SA/PanAsia‐2, A/ASIA/Iran‐05 and O/ME‐SA/Ind‐2001), consistent with FMD viruses that are circulating elsewhere in the region. These findings demonstrate that SHO are susceptible to FMD and highlight the risks of virus incursion into zoos and captive facilities in the Arabian Peninsula.

中文翻译：

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圈养弯角羚羊 (Oryx dammah) 爆发口蹄疫。

本文描述了 2013 年至 2015 年间在弯角羚羊 ( Oryx dammah ) 中检测到的三起口蹄疫 (FMD)) (SHO)，一只在野外灭绝的大型萨赫勒-撒哈拉羚羊，饲养在阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比以东 50 公里处的野生有蹄类动物繁殖设施中。虽然在 3 次暴发中的两次期间，近 4,000 SHO 人口中没有发现 FMD 导致的死亡率，但发病率因循环菌株而异，血清转化率在两周内达到 78.0% 的稳定水平，并至少在 9 周内保持这一水平个月。VP1 编码区的部分或完整测序表明，这三起爆发是由三个不同的 FMDV 谱系（O/ME-SA/PanAsia-2、A/ASIA/Iran-05 和 O/ME-SA/Ind-2001）引起的，与在该地区其他地方传播的 FMD 病毒一致。