Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in Landhi Dairy Colony, Pakistan, the world largest Buffalo colony | Virology Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access Epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in Landhi Dairy Colony Pakistan the world largest Buffalo colony Joern Klein1 2 Manzoor Hussain3 Munir Ahmad3 Muhammad Afzal4 and Soren Alexandersen 1 Address 1National Veterinary Institute Technical University of Denmark Lindholm DK-4771 Kalvehave Denmark 2Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine N-7489 Trondheim Norway 3Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Pakistan NARC Park Road PK-45500 Pakistan and 4Ministry of Food Agriculture Livestock Pakistan Livestock wing PK-44000 Pakistan Email Joern Klein - kleinjoern@ Manzoor Hussain - Munir Ahmad - munirmul@ Muhammad Afzal - Soren Alexandersen - sax@ Corresponding author Published 29 April 2008 Received 11 February 2008 Accepted 29 April 2008 Virology Journal 2008 5 53 doi 186 1743-422X-5-53 This article is available from http content 5 1 53 2008 Klein et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Foot-and-mouth disease FMD is endemic in Pakistan and causes huge economic losses. This work focus on the Landhi Dairy Colony LDC located in the suburbs of Karachi. LDC is the largest Buffalo colony in the world with more than 300 000 animals around 95 buffaloes and 5 cattle as well as an unknown number of sheep and goats . Each month from April 2006 to April 2007 we collected mouth-swabs from apparently healthy buffaloes and cattle applying a convenient sampling based on a two-stage random sampling scheme in conjunction with participatory information from each .
