Main factors associated with foot-and-mouth disease virus infection during the 2001 FMD epidemic in Uruguay.

ABSTRACT: Large epidemics provide the opportunity to understand the epidemiology of diseases under the specific conditions of the affected population. Whilst foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemics have been extensively studied in developed countries, epidemics in developing countries have been sparsely studied. Here we address this limitation by systematically studying the 2001 epidemic in Uruguay where a total of 2,057 farms were affected. The objective of this study was to identify the risk factors (RF) associated with infection and spread of the virus within the country. The epidemic was divided into four periods: (1) the high-risk period (HRP) which was the period between the FMD virus introduction and detection of the index case; (2) the local control measures period (LCM) which encompassed the

SUBMITTER: Iriarte MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932531 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature