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Understanding the molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth-disease virus
1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, N-7489 Trondheim, Norway. jorn.klein@ntnu.no
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.
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