While the investigation into how the footandmouthvirus escaped from the Pirbright site continues, there are now doubts as to whether the laboratory is still fit for purpose.
尽管针对口蹄疫病毒如何从皮尔·布赖特外泄的调查仍在继续，人们已经开始怀疑这个实验室是否还适于使用。
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A multiplex RT-PCR was optimized to simultaneously detect foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV).
The highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease can affect cloven - hoofed animals including pigs, sheep and goats, while humans are hardly affected by the virus.