foot-and-mouth dis·ease (FMD),

a highly infectious disease of worldwide distribution and great economic importance, occurring in cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and all wild and domestic cloven-hoofed animals caused by a picornavirus (genus Aphthovirus) and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth, tongue, hoofs, and udder; humans are rarely affected.

Synonym(s): aftosa

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foot-and-mouth disease

An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hooves. It is usually not fatal. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.

An infection of cloven-hoofed barnyard beasts (cattle, goats, pigs, sheep) or rarely, humans, by a picornavirus, genus Aphthovirus, or by a rhabdovirus, vesicular stomatitis, which has an RNA clothed in a naked icosahedral nucleocapsid

foot-and-mouth dis·ease

(fut mowth di-zēz)

Highly infectious disease of worldwide distribution and great economic importance, occurring in cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and all wild and domestic cloven-hoofed animals caused by a picornavirus and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth, tongue, hoofs, and udder; humans are rarely affected.

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Outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease / herpangina associated with coxsackievirus A6 and A10 infections in 2010, France: a large citywide, prospective observational study.

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Foot and mouth disease, which may attack all cloven-hoofed animals, has been found in cattle in South Korea and is believed to have infected cattle from Japan.

Outbreak could harm beef

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During question hour in the House, Rajab Ali said that various laboratories have been strengthened to improve foot and mouth disease diagnosis in the country.

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Under European Union rules, member states have to evaluate their foot and mouth disease contingency plans either twice within a five-year period or once during the five years after the outbreak of a major disease has been effectively controlled and eradicated.

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The Center also urged local residents to maintain strict personal and environmental hygiene to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease.

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Two human enterovirus 71 (HEV71) isolates were identified from hand, foot and mouth disease patients with genome sequences that had high similarity to HEV71 ([greater than or equal to] 93%) at 5'UTR, P1, and P2 and coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16, [greater than or equal to] 85%) at P3 and 3'UTR.

Recombinant human enterovirus 71 in hand, foot and mouth disease patients