1. Understanding the molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth-disease virus.
- Author
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Klein J
- Subjects
- Animals, Antibodies, Viral blood, Cattle, Cattle Diseases transmission, Disease Reservoirs veterinary, Disease Transmission, Infectious veterinary, Foot-and-Mouth Disease transmission, Foot-and-Mouth Disease virology, Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus genetics, Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus physiology, Cattle Diseases epidemiology, Cattle Diseases virology, Foot-and-Mouth Disease epidemiology, Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus immunology, Molecular Epidemiology
- Abstract
The use of molecular epidemiology is an important tool in understanding and consequently controlling FMDV. In this review I will present basic information about the disease, needed to perform molecular epidemiology. I will give a short introduction to the history and impact of foot-and-mouth disease, clinical picture, infection route, subclinical and persistent infections, general aspects of the transmission of FMDV, serotype-specific epidemiological characteristics, field epidemiology of FMDV, evolution and molecular epidemiology of FMDV. This is followed by two chapters describing the molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in global surveillance and molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in outbreak investigation.
- Published
- 2009
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