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The role of sheep and goats in the epizootiology of foot-and-mouth disease in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. C. Anderson ,
W. J. Doughty  and
J. Anderson
E. C. Anderson
Affiliation:
Wellcome Institute for Research on Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Embakasi, Kenya
W. J. Doughty
Affiliation:
Wellcome Institute for Research on Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Embakasi, Kenya
J. Anderson
Affiliation:
Wellcome Institute for Research on Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Embakasi, Kenya
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The pathogenicity of two bovine field strains of virus for indigenous goats was examined in the laboratory. The goats failed to develop clinical disease or become virus carriers although the majority showed a definite immune response. A field survey in a foot-and-mouth disease enzootic area showed that the indigenous sheep and goat populations were frequently exposed to infection as evidenced by a high proportion of sero-positive animals but the incidence of virus carriers was very low in goats and no carriers were detected in sheep.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 395 - 402
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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