Letters to Editor
nature 164, 235-236 (06 August 1949) | doi:10.1038/164235b0
Cultivation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Explanted Epithelial Tissue of the Bovine Rumen
H. S. FRENKEL & H. H. J. FREDERIKS
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FOR the preparation of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease a source of the causative agent is needed. This source can be the living susceptible animal; or it can be the artificially cultivated virus, provided that a sufficient quantity of this agent can be produced.
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References
- Maitland, M. C., and Maitland, H. B., 4th Progress Keport of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Committee.
- Hecke, F., Z. Bakt., 128, 336 (1933).
- Frenkel and van Waveren, "Algemeene Landsdrukkery" (The Hague, 1934–35).
- Frenkel, H. S., Office International des Epizootics, 28 (1947).
- See Parker, "Methods of Tissue Culture", 76 (Paul Boeber, Inc.).
