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Carriers of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
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Carriers of Foot-and-Mouth Disease

  • R. C. MCLEAN1 

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THE highly sporadic character of the occurrences of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain and its apparently repeated importation from the Continent have naturally caused much speculation about possible vectors, though the special difficulties of the case have prevented the direct demonstration of carriage.

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MCLEAN, R. Carriers of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. Nature 141, 828 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141828a0

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