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Published online 1 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030728-11
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Test tells apart infected and vaccinated foot-and-mouthcattle
Future FMD outbreaks could be tackled by immunization, not culling.
A cheap new test can distinguish cattle infected with or vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)1. It could allow future outbreaks to be curtailed by immunization rather than by culling, researchers suggest.
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