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SUBMITTER: Knight-Jones TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4768268 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Knight-Jones T J D TJ Gubbins S S Bulut A N AN Stärk K D C KD Pfeiffer D U DU Sumption K J KJ Paton D J DJ
Scientific reports 20160226
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Turkey is controlled using biannual mass vaccination of cattle. However, vaccine protection is undermined by population turnover and declining immunity. A dynamic model of the Turkish cattle population was created. Assuming biannual mass vaccination with a single-dose primary course, vaccine history was calculated for the simulated population (number of doses and time since last vaccination). This was used to estimate population immunity. Six months after the last ...[more]