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Cypriot sheep and goats suspected to be infected with bluetongue or contagious ecthyma, from ten…
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May indicate FMD infection up to 3 years prior in small ruminants; leaves open optimal surveillance windows for eradication programs.
Antibodies to FMD virus non-structural proteins can be detected around 3 years after infection in small ruminants, even when virus carriers cannot be detected.
Paton et al. (2009) studied this question.
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