Open session of the standing technical committee of the EUFMD- 2002

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was carried out in Foot & Mouth Disease Institute, Ankara and Institute for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology of TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Gebze Kocaeli. The authors are grateful to Prof. Dr. E. Bermek who founded the collaboration between the organizations, to the General Directorate of Agricutural Research of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (TAGEM), Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organisation (TUBITAK) and Ege University Science and Technology (EBILTEM) for their financial support, to Dr. H. Zengin for his moral support, Dr. A. Naci Bulut for his excellent technical help in ELISA applications and to Dr. I. Türküz for his technical help in vaccination and bleeding of the cattle on the farm.

Open session of the standing technical committee of the EUFMD- 2002

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Appendix 43 List of participants

Appendix 42

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April 2002

Item 8 Closed Session

Item 5 Diagnostics – virus detection

Item 6 Diagnostics – antibody detection

Item 4 Virus characterisation

Item 7 FMD vaccines and vaccination

Item 3 Pathogenicity and transmission

Item 2a FMD control: epidemiology, surveillance, control measures: focus on endemic zones

Item 2b FMD control: epidemiology, surveillance and control measures: focus on epidemic incursions

Item 1 Information on current FMD situation in the world and reports on outbreaks