EDITORIAL

FOREWORD

Introduction to this special edition of the Veterinary Quarterly

This special edition of the Veterinary Quarterly contains the papers presented at the Final Meeting ofConcerted Action CT93 0909, held at the Institute for Animal Science and Health (ID-DLO), Lelystad onthe 28th and 29th April 1997. The objective of the meeting was to review progress on the ConcertedAction, a three year project sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities to investigate thepotential of diagnostic tests which measure antibody to the non-structural proteins offoot-and-mouth dis-ease virus to differentiate infected from vaccinated animals. The first paper 'Differentiating infection fromvaccination in foot-and-mouth disease: Summary and conclusion of the Final Meeting of ConcertedAction CT93-0909 summarises the results and conclusions of the meeting and reviews their significancein terms of the potential use of NS protein antibody tests in FMD diagnosis.

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Concerted Action CT93 0909

THE VETERINARY QUARTERLY, VOL. 20, SUPPLEMENT 2, MAY 1998

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