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Vaccination strategies for foot-and-mouth disease (reply)

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Kitching1 express concerns about our mathematical models of reactive vaccination strategies for the control of foot-and-mouth disease epidemics2. However, in our view, these concerns are misplaced.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Michael J. Tildesley & Matt J. Keeling

  2. Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK

    Nicholas J. Savill & Mark E. J. Woolhouse

  3. Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Roslin, EH25 9RG, Midlothian, UK

    Darren J. Shaw

  4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada

    Rob Deardon

  5. Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, UK

    Stephen P. Brooks

  6. Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

    Bryan T. Grenfell

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Tildesley, M., Savill, N., Shaw, D. et al. Vaccination strategies for foot-and-mouth disease (reply). Nature 445, E12–E13 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05605

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