Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú y đề tài: Epidemiology and eradication of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis (IBR/IPV) virus in Finland. | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Epidemiology and eradication of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis infectious pustular vulvovaginitis IBR IPV virus in Finland Lasse Nuotio 1 Erkki Neuvonen1 and Mauno Hyytiainen2 Address department of Virology National Veterinary and Food Research Institute EELA PO Box 45 FI-00581 Helsinki Finland and 2retired from State Provincial Office of Southern Finland . Box 150 13101 Hameenlinna Finland Email Lasse Nuotio - Erkki Neuvonen - Mauno Hyytiainen - Corresponding author Published 12 January 2007 Received 29 March 2006 . . r . nftft-r -ft ft . Ift I I ft 1 -71-1 ft I A-t ft ft Accepted 12 January 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavian 2007 49 3 doi 1751-0147-49-3 This article is available from http content 49 1 3 2007 Nuotio 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 Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis infectious pustular vulvovaginitis IBR IPV is a significant disease among domestic and wild cattle. The BHV-1 infection was first detected in Finland in 1970 presumably it was imported in 1968. The infection reappeared in the large-scale bulk-tank milk surveillances which started in 1990 and was eradicated in 1994. Our aim is to describe the epidemiology of this infection in Finland and its eradication. Materials and methods The official sources of pertinent information the legal basis for the disease control and the serological methods for the detection of the infection are described. Results and conclusion Ten AI bulls were found to be seropositive in 1970-1971. The total number of herds with BHV-1 antibody positive animals in the .