Epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in Landhi Dairy Colony, Pakistan, the world largest Buffalo colony

Joern Klein¹^,2 , Manzoor Hussain³ , Munir Ahmad³ , Muhammad Afzal⁴ and Soren Alexandersen¹

¹National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lindholm, DK-4771 Kalvehave, Denmark

²Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, N-7489 Trondheim, Norway

³Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Pakistan, NARC, Park Road, PK-45500, Pakistan

⁴Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Livestock Pakistan, Livestock wing, PK-44000, Pakistan

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Virology Journal 2008, 5:53doi:10.1186/1743-422X-5-53


Published:	29 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

FMDV infection prevalence at aggregate level in tabular form. FMDV infection prevalence at aggregate level from April 2006 to April 2007, based on the number of inapparently infected animals found in a two-stage sampling scheme. The farm-level (herd-level) prevalence reflects the number of farms with positive found animals, calculated as the proportion of Σ farms infected per month to Σ farms sampled per month, and the animal-level prevalence reflect the number of positive animals within the sampled population, calculated as the proportion of Σ animals infected per month to Σ animals sampled per month

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ODP values of all 180 tested serum samples. ODP values of all 180 tested serum samples, for serotype specific and NSP ELISA

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