NAHEMS Guidelines: Vaccination for Contagious Diseases, Appendix B: Vaccination for Classical Swine Fever
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2012-05-01
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Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
Our faculty promote the understanding of causes of infectious disease in animals and the mechanisms by which diseases develop at the organismal, cellular and molecular levels. Veterinary microbiology also includes research on the interaction of pathogenic and symbiotic microbes with their hosts and the host response to infection.
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This Appendix is intended to provide relevant information for federal and state officials and other interested parties who will participate in making decisions related to use of vaccine as an aid to control an outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF) in the United States (U.S.). The following topics are presented and discussed: Important characteristics of CSF; Characteristics of vaccines; Strategies for vaccine use; Various factors that must be considered when designing an effective vaccination program.
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This report is an appendix to the FAD PReP Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness & Response Plan (2012): 68 pp.