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Intramuscular Inoculation of Pigs with Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus is a Practical Alternative to Intradermal Injection into the Heel Bulb
2026-06-10
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Intradermal inoculation into the heel bulb (IDHB) is the standard method for experimental infection of pigs with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, a high-consequence pathogen of livestock worldwide. However, IDHB is difficult to execute, requires deep sedation, and the actual volume (and thus virus dose) deposited in the tissue are difficult to control. Intramuscular injection (IM)...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 322b7c5c-8ccf-5292-9a38-cf5266951d7b
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9865183/v1
