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Cultivation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Explanted Epithelial Tissue of the Bovine Rumen

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FOR the preparation of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease a source of the causative agent is needed. This source can be the living susceptible animal ; or it can be the artificially cultivated virus, provided that a sufficient quantity of this agent can be produced.

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FRENKEL, H., FREDERIKS, H. Cultivation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus in Explanted Epithelial Tissue of the Bovine Rumen. Nature 164, 235–236 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164235b0

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