Full-length genome characterization of a novel recombinant vaccine-like lumpy skin disease virus strain detected during the climatic winter in Russia, 2019

An uncharacteristic outbreak of lumpy skin disease was reported in the Republic of Udmurtiya, Russia, during the climatic winter of March 2019. The causative lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV_Udmurtiya_Russia_2019) was shown to be a recombinant composed of a live attenuated Neethling-type vaccine strain as the dominant parental strain and a Kenyan KSGP/NI-2490-like virus as its minor parental strain, with 24 statistically significant recombination events that are not identical to those in LSDV Saratov/2017, in which 27 events were identified.