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Assessment of suitability of two serotype A candidate vaccine strains for inclusion in FMD vaccine in India.
Veterinary microbiology - 18 Sept 2008
Mohapatra Jajati Keshari, Hemadri Divakar, Rao T V S, Sreenivasa B P, Subramaniam Saravanan, Sanyal Aniket, Periyasamy Tamilselvan Ramasamy, Singh Nawal Kishor, Pattnaik Bramhadev, Venkataramanan Ramamurthy
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The recent type A foot and mouth disease virus field isolates recovered in India are shown to be antigenically quite divergent from the in-use vaccine strain (IND 17/82), warranting the selection of a suitable vaccine strain which can cover this diversity in antigenic spectrum. In earlier studies employing neutralization test with anti-146S rabbit sera raised against eight candidate vaccine strains, IND 81/00 and...
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