口蹄疫综合防控与环境控制问题

口蹄疫是由口蹄疫病毒引起的一类急性、热性、高度接触性传染病,对世界各国养殖业造成了严重的经济损失.目前通过环境控制的策略来综合防控口蹄疫引起了人们的重视.论文就口蹄疫的流行概况、综合防控及环境控制与口蹄疫的防控相互关系进行探讨,旨在为口蹄疫的综合防控提供参考.     

口蹄疫灭活疫苗的生产工艺概述

灭活疫苗仍然是当前防控口蹄疫使用的主要疫苗,因此研究灭活疫苗生产工艺具有非常重要的现实意义.详细论述了口蹄疫灭活疫苗生产过程,并对近年来生产工艺方面的一些研究进展做了简要介绍.     

浅谈口蹄疫灭活疫苗的生产工艺

灭活疫苗仍然是当前防控口蹄疫使用的主要疫苗,因此研究灭活疫苗生产工艺具有非常重要的现实意义。详细论述了口蹄疫灭活疫苗生产过程,并对近年来生产工艺方面的一些研究进展做了简要介绍。     

Vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease: the implications for Canada

Vaccination of susceptible animals against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a well established strategy for helping to combat the disease. Traditionally, FMD vaccine has been used to control a disease incursion in countries where the disease has been endemic rather than in countries considered free of the disease. In 2001, the use of vaccine was considered but not implemented in the United Kingdom (1), whereas vaccine was used to help to control FMD in The Netherlands (2,3). Canadian contingency plans provide for the use of vaccine; Canada is a member of the North American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank, which could supply vaccine if needed. This article explains why Canada might use FMD vaccine to combat an outbreak and the factors that are relevant to the disposal of vaccinated animals and their products. It concludes that vaccination is an important mechanism in Canada's preparedness for an outbreak of FMD and that products from vaccinated animals are safe for human consumption.     

Vaccination against foot and mouth disease: current state and perspectives

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in many parts of the world and poses a permanent threat for cloven-hoofed animals in all countries. The available vaccines against FMD are safe and efficacious. Combat of FMD by vaccination is controversial in currently FMD-free countries including the ones of the European Union. The article summarizes our knowledge concerning production and use of vaccines, virus persistence, differentiation between vaccinated and infected animals, vaccination programs and perspectives of vaccine development.     

Foot-and-mouth disease: an assessment of the risks facing New Zealand

Although New Zealand has never had a case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the threat that this disease poses to the economy of this country has long been recognised. The unprecedented global spread of FMD caused by the type-O PanAsia strain, culminating in the outbreak that occurred in the United Kingdom in early 2001, has refocussed the concerns of biosecurity agencies worldwide. The 3 lines of defence against exotic disease incursions in this country are border controls, surveillance and incursion response capability. This article reviews the pathogenesis, virus survival, routes of infection and methods of spread of FMD virus, and in the light of recent international developments, presents a summary of the major risks of introduction and dissemination of FMD virus and the risk-management measures in place for this country.     

动物隐性携带口蹄疫病毒的检测方法研究进展

动物隐性带毒的检测在口蹄疫预防控制中有着十分重要的意义。多年来,为了有效地检测出动物隐性携带的口蹄疫病毒,人们采用了各种各样的检测方法,常用的有采集食管-咽喉分泌液进行病毒分离和应用血清学技术检测血清抗体等。近年来,随着分子生物学技术和基因工程技术的发展,不管是检测抗原还是检测抗体,对于口蹄疫隐性带毒的检测和研究都有了一些新的进展,如应用PCR技术检测病毒核酸和应用血清学技术检测抗非结构蛋白抗体,这些新的检测方法的建立使口蹄疫隐性带毒的检测更加可靠。文章对一些口蹄疫隐性带毒的检测方法和最新的研究进展进行了综述。     

猪口蹄疫特点、流行情况及疫苗使用现状

口蹄疫是危害我国畜牧业的主要传染病之一,主要感染猪、牛、羊等偶蹄动物,其中猪口蹄疫不同于牛、羊口蹄疫,有其独特特点。本文聚焦猪口蹄疫,从其特点、全球流行情况以及我国疫苗使用现状等方面进行了阐述和分析,以期为我国猪口蹄疫防控提供参考。     

The application of biotechnology to the control of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

Biotechnology, which less than 10 years ago was heralded as an alternative to epidemiology in providing the answers to the control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), has not fulfilled its initial promise. Instead it is now complementing epidemiology by providing extremely sensitive and specific tools for identifying and characterizing strains of FMD virus in diagnostic material. Considerable advances in our understanding of the evolution of the virus in different field situations has been made possible by the development and application of polymerase chain reaction and nucleotide sequencing techniques. The individual genes of FMD virus can now be cloned into a number of vectors and separately expressed and studied in isolation from the other viral proteins. Biotechnology has not provided a safe and effective vaccine to replace the conventional tissue culture derived vaccine that would have made FMD a disease of the past. FMD remains the most economically significant animal disease having a major influence on the international trade of animals and their products. The world distribution of FMD has remained almost unchanged over the last 20 years and a balance has been maintained between improved surveillance and diagnostic technology and the ever increasing legal and illegal international movement of animals and reduction in veterinary resources. Research continues on peptide, recombinant and vector expressed virus protein vaccines which could at any time yield a breakthrough, not only for FMD control but, using similar technology, for control of other viral diseases, human and animal. Until this occurs, control and eradication of FMD still relies on classical epidemiological techniques, making use of new biotechnological methods.     

Cutaneous biology and diseases of fish.

The normal structure and function of the piscine integument reflects the adaptation of the organism to the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the aquatic environment, and the natural history of the organism. Because of the intimate contact of fish with the environment, cutaneous disease is relatively more common in fish than in terrestrial vertebrates and is one of the primary disease conditions presented to the aquatic animal practitioner. However, cutaneous lesions are generally nonspecific and may be indicative of disease that is restricted to the integument or a manifestation of systemic disease. Regardless, a gross and microscopic examination of the integument is simple to perform, but is highly diagnostic and should always be included in the routine diagnostic effort of the aquatic animal practitioner, especially since various ancillary diagnostic procedures are either not practical or lack predictive value in fish. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of normal cutaneous biology prior to consideration of specific cutaneous diseases in fish.     

口蹄疫灭活疫苗研究进展

灭活疫苗仍然是当前口蹄疫免疫控制的主要疫苗,研制口蹄疫灭活疫苗具有重要的现实意义,其研制方法在不断丰富和完善。文章详细描述了口蹄疫灭活疫苗研制的重要步骤及其进展,包括毒株筛选,病毒生产、灭活、抗原浓缩、纯化和配苗及疫苗的质量控制。制苗毒株的选择是研制疫苗的首要问题,直接关系到疫苗的免疫效果;病毒灭活和随后的安全试验是在制备灭活FMD疫苗中最关键的步骤;抗原浓缩纯化和配苗是保证疫苗良好免疫效果的必需。最后阐述了口蹄疫灭活疫苗在口蹄疫防控中的作用。     

口蹄疫合成肽疫苗研究进展

口蹄疫(FMD)是一种严重威胁世界畜牧业发展和国际进出口贸易的重大传染病。尽管FMD传统疫苗在免疫效力上具有一定优势,但其自身仍存在诸多弊端及隐患。随着分子生物学技术的飞速发展,及其在兽医领域不断取得的创新性应用,FMD合成肽疫苗作为新型基因工程疫苗的一种,以其具有更为广谱的特异性、更加安全稳定、经济实用等特点,现已成为FMD研究领域的主要热点及方向。论文从抗原位点的选择、空间构象的研究、疫苗载体的探索以及免疫佐剂的优化等多方面对FMD合成肽疫苗的发展过程及其研究进展进行了深入探讨,旨在为FMD合成肽疫苗的进一步发展以及其他病原微生物合成肽疫苗的深入研究提供借鉴。     

Re-emergence of foot-and-mouth disease in Botswana

The re-emergence of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Botswana is reported. The disease outbreak occurred in the Matsiloje Extension Area of Francistown veterinary district situated in the northeastern part of the country in an Office International des épízooties (OIE) recognized FMD free zone without vaccination. The disease affected cattle only and did not spillover into sheep and goats resident in the same extension area, as demonstrated by lack of seroconversion to FMD when tested. The virus isolate associated with the outbreak was identified as FMD virus; Southern African Territories (SAT) type SAT-2. The disease outbreak is discussed in relation to FMD outbreaks that have occurred previously within and outside Botswana.     

口蹄疫灭活疫苗抗原稳定性研究进展

口蹄疫是一种感染牛、羊和猪等偶蹄动物、具有高度传染性的动物疫病。疫苗免疫是控制该病的关键措施之一,口蹄疫灭活疫苗在口蹄疫流行地区广泛使用。灭活疫苗中,完整口蹄疫病毒粒子(146S粒子)是至关重要的免疫抗原,它的数量和稳定性决定了疫苗的免疫效果。不同血清型,甚至同型不同毒株的口蹄疫病毒粒子稳定性不同,146S粒子在一定温度、酸、碱条件下容易分解为五聚体(12S粒子),导致疫苗免疫效力大幅下降。近年来口蹄疫病毒结构及其稳定性的分子基础研究取得了一定进展,为研究口蹄疫病毒稳定性提高疫苗质量,开发新型口蹄疫空衣壳疫苗提供了重要的理论基础。本文简要介绍了口蹄疫病毒结构基础、稳定性研究方法和研究进展。为同行了解口蹄疫病毒结构与免疫的关系,评价新型疫苗提供一些参考信息。     

Is it hereditary?: 1. The cause of disease

There is an increasing awareness of the role of heredity in the pathogenesis of many diseases, and the veterinarian can expect to be asked to comment on a possible genetic contribution to the cause of disease. This article is the first of three that describe the modes of inheritance of hereditary diseases in the context of current concepts of causality, and outline techniques for identifying hereditary components of the cause of disease, so that the practitioner can give a reasoned answer to the question: Ts it hereditary?' The first article introduces the subject and considers causality.     

A dynamic, optimal disease control model for foot-and-mouth disease: I. Model description

A dynamic optimization model was developed and used to evaluate alternative foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control strategies. The model chose daily control strategies of depopulation and vaccination that minimized total regional cost for the entire epidemic duration, given disease dynamics and resource constraints. The disease dynamics and the impacts of control strategies on these dynamics were characterized in a set of difference equations; effects of movement restrictions on the disease dynamics were also considered. The model was applied to a three-county region in the Central Valley of California; the epidemic relationships were parameterized and validated using the information obtained from an FMD simulation model developed for the same region. The optimization model enables more efficient searches for desirable control strategies by considering all strategies simultaneously, providing the simulation model with optimization results to direct it in generating detailed predictions of potential FMD outbreaks.     

Serological evidence of FMD subclinical infection in sheep population during the 1999 epidemic in Morocco.

During 1999, 11 outbreaks of foot and mouth disease (FMD) were declared in the east and central part of Morocco. All the FMD clinical cases reported were cattle. In order to analyse the serological status of sheep from the FMD outbreak areas, 598 sheep sera were tested using a liquid-phase blocking ELISA (LPBE) to detect antibodies against FMDV structural proteins. The study confirmed the presence of FMDV specific antibodies in 77 clinically normal sheep, indicating that unrecognised FMDV-infected sheep could represent a potential risk of FMD dissemination in Morocco.Subsequently, sera from flocks of sheep that had been exposed to FMD outbreaks were assayed by an indirect ELISA using the recombinant FMDV non-structural protein 3ABC expressed in E. coli to evaluate the potential use of this serological test in future epidemiological studies and the development of FMD control strategies. The results indicated that the 3ABC-ELISA was able to detect antibodies indicative of infection with FMDV in asymptomatic sheep in field conditions.     

Epidemiological simulation modeling and spatial analysis for foot-and-mouth disease control strategies: a comprehensive review

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most serious transboundary, contagious viral diseases of cloven-hoofed livestock, because it can spread rapidly with high morbidity rates when introduced into disease-free herds or areas. Epidemiological simulation modeling can be developed to study the hypothetical spread of FMD and to evaluate potential disease control strategies that can be implemented to decrease the impact of an outbreak or to eradicate the virus from an area. Spatial analysis, a study of the distributions of events in space, can be applied to an area to investigate the spread of animal disease. Hypothetical FMD outbreaks can be spatially analyzed to evaluate the effect of the event under different control strategies. The main objective of this paper is to review FMD-related articles on FMD epidemiology, epidemiological simulation modeling and spatial analysis with the focus on disease control. This review will contribute to the development of models used to simulate FMD outbreaks under various control strategies, and to the application of spatial analysis to assess the outcome of FMD spread and its control.     

Global situation of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)--a short review

This article reviews the actual world FMD situation. In 2000, fifty nine countries officially reported outbreaks of FMD. The disease occurred in Europe (Greece), Asia (Russia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, in Caucasian region--Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia as well as in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan), Africa (Egypt, Kenya, Mauritania, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and in South America (Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela). In 2001, FMD was still spreading throughout the endemic regions and appeared in some of the west European countries--Great Britain, The Netherlands, France and Ireland. In South America, FMD occurred in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia. In Asia the FMD spread in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iran, Bhutan, Nepal, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan. The FMD situation in Africa was unclear, but probably most countries in West, East and South Africa were affected. The most recent data of the OIE from May 2002 confirmed FMD outbreaks in population of pigs in Republic of Korea.