New approaches to vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease.
The economically important foot-and-mouth disease has been successfully controlled in Western Europe by comprehensive immunization using killed vaccine. The author discusses the wisdom of abandoning this policy, and outlines research into alternative vaccines using recombinant DNA technology, in particular using synthetic peptides.
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United States Department of Agriculture, Greenport, New York 11944-0848.
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