Why the study?
Foot-and-mouth disease virus can survive in the environment, creating an opportunity to assess sampling methods for recovering and quantifying the virus from environmental surfaces and aerosols.
Population
Selected farm-associated environmental surfaces and aerosols spiked with foot-and-mouth disease virus
Comparison
Electrostatic dust cloth swabbing across surfaces vs aerosol sampling at different concentrations and distances
Design
Preclinical laboratory sampling efficiency study
Authors
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May enhance non-invasive FMD surveillance; leaves open optimal field protocols and validation.
Environmental and aerosol sampling are efficient methods for detecting and quantifying foot-and-mouth disease virus, providing useful tools for diagnosis and surveillance.
Brown et al. (2020) studied this question.
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