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PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Supporting the EC policy to reduce reliance on large-scale culling of
animals for controlling future FMD outbreaks in EU Member States and
to increase the possibility for implementing the vaccinate-to-live
policy through:
- Validation and development of (confirmatory) NSP-tests
- Improved FMD virus detection
- Better knowledge on the impact of vaccination on FMD virus dissemination and the carrier state
- Improved vaccine strain selection
- The development and evaluation of FMD marker vaccines
- Better knowledge on mucosal immune responses and dendritic cell targeting of the FMD vaccines
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