Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control and Eradication in the Bicol Surveillance Buffer Zone of the Philippines

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 421-433

  Windsor, P A ^a,b   Freeman, P G ^a,c   Abila, R ^a,d   Benigno, C ^a,e   Verin, B ^a   Nim, V ^a,f   Cameron, A ^g  

^a FMD Task Force   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Industry and Investment NSW   (Australia)

^d Friedrich Loeffler Institute Federal Research Institute for Animal Health   (Thailand)

^e Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations   (Thailand)

^f Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations ^*  (Philippines)

^g AUSVET ANIMAL HEALTH SERVICES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Buffer zone; Foot and mouth disease; National plan for control and eradication; Philippines; Porcinophilic O serotype; Transboundary disease

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVESTOCK; PHILIPPINES; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; LIVESTOCK; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUARANTINE; TRANSPORTATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 80052544502     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2011.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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