Transmission of Foot-and-Mouth Disease from Persistently Infected Carrier Cattle to Naive Cattle via Transfer of Oropharyngeal Fluid

Transmission of Foot-and-Mouth Disease from Persistently Infected Carrier Cattle to Naive Cattle via Transfer of Oropharyngeal Fluid

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a viral disease of livestock with substantial impact on agricultural production and subsistence farming on a global scale. Control of FMD is impeded by the existence of a prolonged asymptomatic carrier phase during which infected cattle shed low quantities of infectio...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Arzt, Graham J. Belsham, Louise Lohse, Anette Bøtner, Carolina Stenfeldt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-09-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
FMDV
carrier
cow
foot-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease virus
risk
transmission
virus
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00365-18

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