To investigate the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotypes circulating in Uganda's cattle population, both serological and virological analyses of samples from outbreaks that occurred during 2012-2013 were performed. Altogether, 79 sera and 60 oropharyngeal fluid (OP)/tissue/oral swab samples were collected from herds with reported FMD outbreaks in seven different Ugandan districts. Overa...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is classified by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as a Schedule A disease. Given potential rapid spread of disease, all suspected cases should be reported and investigated immediately. Understanding mechanism FMD control measures key to outbreak investigation allows source an traced along with routes further spread. endemic in vast areas Africa, Asia S...

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hooved livestock and wildlife results to relatively high mortality in young animals. Despite the numerous reports of FMD-related death in neonates, there is little data available on various aspects of FMD in lambs. This report describes myocarditis associated with FMD in five, one week to three months old lambs. The lam...

OBJECTIVES Oxidative stress caused by acute hyperhomocysteinemia impairs endothelial function in human arteries. We sought to identify markers of endothelial dysfunction during methionine-induced hyperhomocysteinemia. DESIGN AND METHODS 35 subjects underwent flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery by high-resolution ultrasonography and fasting blood samples before and 3 h postmeth...

THE USE OF A LIQUID PHASE BLOCKING ELISA KIT FOR DETECTION OF ANTIBODIES AGAINST FOOT-AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS IN COLOMBIA. The objective of this study was to undertake an interlaboratory comparison of a liquid phase blocking ELISA for detection of antibodies to FMD virus. For that purpose sera from 120 vaccinated, 120 infected and 120 FMD negative cattle were tested. All sera were tested in a s...

Introduction The 2001 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in Europe have made clear that using emergency vaccination can shorten the duration of the outbreak. Until recently in the OIE code there was a big gap between the time needed to regain the status free of FMD without vaccination when using only stamping out or stamping out supported by emergency vaccination. For exporting countries th...