In October 2015 the Global Foot and Mouth Research Alliance (GFRA) hosted the 2015 GFRA Scientific Workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Themes included:
Epidemiology, Transmission of FMDV Ecology
- Addressing FMDV global diversity with new developments and applications of diagnostic tools: Don King
- Status of FMD in South East Asia: Somjai Kamolsiripichaiporn
- Status Of Global FMD Control Programs: Samia Metwally
Regional Epidemiology - disease status report
- A study on animal movement and Foot and Mouth Disease in Central Vietnam from March to August 2014 - regional overview - : Nguyen Van Long and Phan Quang Minh
- Experience on outbreaks and controlling FMD in Korea raised a requirement of major modification to establish effective measures to FMD: Young S. Lyoo
- Risk Analysis Of Large Ruminant Movements In The Mekong: Historical Case Study From Laos: Young, J.
- An Epidemiological Investigation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Carriers in Vietnam: Do Huu Dung and Jonathan Arzt
Epidemiological studies in SEA, Asian Buffalo
- Understanding The Life Cycle Of FMDV In Endemic Settings: Rodriguez, L.
- Establishing the role of healthy Asian buffaloes in persistence of foot-and-mouth disease virus: Farooq, U.
- The Possible Role And Significance Of Asian Swamp Buffalo In The Transmission Of Foot And Mouth Disease In South East Asia (SEA): Verin, B.
- Detection of FMDV in Buffalo (Bubalus Bubalis) Population in Three Provinces of Pakistan: Waheed, U.
- eSpatio-Temporal Clustering Of Foot And Mouth Disease In Thailand, 2011- 2014:Chaidate, I.
- Identification of risk factors for the recent Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak in Sri Lanka:Gunasekera, U. C.
- Understanding FMD Viral Ecology and Landscape Epidemiology Towards Control and Eradication of FMD in India: Ranjan, R.
Epidemiology studies South Asia, Africa and other regions
- Evidence for multiple recombination events within genomes of FMDVs circulating in West Eurasia: Jamal, S.
- Genetic Characterization of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus isolated during cross sectional surveillance studies in Cattle from Uganda during 2014: Mwiine, F.
Immune Response, Pathogenesis, Vaccines
- The current state of knowledge on passive and adaptive responses during FMDV infection: Dr. Bryan Charleston
- Optimizing and harmonizing challenge methods to evaluate FMD vaccines in cattle and swine: Dr. Jonathan Arzt
- Exploring the FMDV Carrier State Divergence in Vaccinated and Naive Cattle: Stenfeldt, C.
- Follicular dendritic cell (FDC): a key player in the persistence of footand-mouth disease virus: Habiela, M.
- FMD Vaccine Manufacture Controls and Constraints: Dr. Tim Doel
- A novel FMD vaccine production platform: Rieder, E.
- Engineering tailor made FMD vaccines for Africa with increased thermostability: Scott, K.
- Efficacy of Foot-and-Mouth disease vaccines A22 Iraq 64 and a Maylaysia 97 against challenge with a recent South East Asian serotype A field strain in cattle and sheep: Horsington, J.
- Control Strategy Of FMD In Libya And Post-Vaccination Monitoring: Eldaghayes, I.
- Enhanced Protection with Inactivated Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Purified by Tagged-Maker Expressing on Virus Surface: Park, J-H.
- Vaccine matching and genetic characterization of FMDV serotype A and O isolates in South-East Asia: Singanallur, N.
- Improved prediction of antigenic relationships between Foot-and-Mouth disease viruses: Harvey, WT.
- Determining the Epitope Dominance of FMDV Serotype O Circulating in India by Site-Directed Mutagenesis: Biswal, J.
- Deceptive Imprinting of FMDV: Mapping of Capsid Hyper-Variable Regions Between Two Disparate SAT2 Strains: Ramulongo, TD.
- Defining Requirements and Execution of International Field Trials for Next Generation Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccines and Diagnostics: Motroni, R.
Surveillance and diagnostics
- Replacement of FMDV cattle tongue titration by in-vitro titration: Dekker, A.
- Genetic Analysis of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Serotypes A/O/SAT2 in Egypt during 2013-2014: El-Ashmawi, W.
- Serological Surveillance and Molecular Epidemiology of Foot-And-Mouth Disease in North Region of Cameroon: Dickmu, S.
- Diagnostic observations with PAN-FMDV and serotype-specific Realtime RT-PCR protocols on Kenyan field samples: Sangula, A.
- Foot and Mouth Disease: Vaccine, Vaccination, Monitoring and challenges for control in India: Singh, SN.
- FMD-Uganda: Development of Improved Diagnostics Tools for a Comprehensive Surveillance Program - longitudinal surveillance study in four Selected Districts: Lutwama, J.
- Insights into the epidemiology of FMD in East Africa provides opportunities for targeted control: Lembo, T.
- Use of lateral flow device for safe and low cost shipment of FMDV suspected samples: Bakkali-Kassimi, L.
- Detection of vesicular disease viruses in swine oral fluids: Nfon, C.
- Laboratory validation of two real time RT-PCR methods for foot-and mouth disease virus with an increased diagnostic specificity: Lefebvre, D.
- Isolation of Camelid Nanobodies for Economical and Effective Diagnostics of FMDV in Uganda: Lobel, L.
Research Gaps for the control of FMDV
- Towards Openfmd, A Bioinformatic Resource To Support The Genetic, Antigenic And Epidemiological Features Of Foot And Mouth Disease Viruses: Dauphin, G.
- The Right Option at the Right Time: Decision Support for Foot and Mouth Disease vaccination campaigns: King, A.
- Foot and Mouth Disease Control Option in Parts of West Africa: Wungak, YS.
- FMD Serological survey in Libya and the circulating viruses: Dayhum, A.
- Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Animal Health Surveillance and Control: The Case of Foot and Mouth Disease Surveillance in Vietnam: Pham, TTH.
- Improving quality assurance along the FMD vaccine production and supply chain:
Presentations from global experts can be found on the GFRA Website