Editorial: Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Swine

Editorial: Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Swine

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of livestock (1). The disease is caused by infection with a picornavirus, generically referred as FMD virus (FMDV), which is considered one of the most infectious agents affecting animals (2). FMD status affects national and international movement and trade of animals and animal products, and food animal trade is expected to p...

Foot-and-mouth disease in feral swine: susceptibility and transmission.

Experimental studies of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in feral swine are limited, and data for clinical manifestations and disease transmissibility are lacking. In this report, feral and domestic swine were experimentally infected with FMDV (A24-Cruzeiro), and susceptibility and virus transmission were studied. Feral swine were proved to be highly susceptible to A-24 Cruzeiro FMD virus by intrad...

Update on foot-and-mouth disease in swine

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease of all cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and vesicle formation in the mouth and on the feet. Economically, it is the most important disease of animals in the world.1 Period. Presence of this disease in a national herd destroys all export possibilities and hinders production so severely that profits for the domestic ma...

Indirect Complement Fixation in Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Management of classical swine fever and foot-and- mouth disease in Lao Pdr Management of classical swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease in Lao PDR

Classical swine fever (CSF) and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are two major trans-boundary animal diseases (TADs) having economic impact on the South-East Asian region. This paper describes the various diagnostic tests available for CSF and FMD, the limitations of each and their potential application in a lowtechnology setting. The need to have complementary field and laboratory operations inclu...