Longitudinal Sampling For FMDV In Nigeria - S. Gubbins

Environmental sampling, in particular taking swabs of any surfaces likely to have been contaminated by infected animals, presents an opportunity for non-invasive sample collection, enabling cost-effective FMD surveillance beyond regular investigation of clinical cases. Linking the results of environmental sampling with those of other surveillance methods (e.g. oral swabs or serum samples) allows a comparison of the methods and shows how the results of different sampling methods are correlated.