Healing lesion, tongue, foot-and-mouth disease, cow

Healing lesion, tongue, foot-and-mouth disease, cow

Healing foot-and-mouth disease lesion on bovine tongue. Contact animal on day 10 after experimental exposure. Abundant fibrin deposition indicates an old lesion. Material collected from such lesions often contains only small amounts of viral RNA, and there might be no infectious virus at all.

Courtesy of National Veterinary Institute, DTU Vet, Lindholm, Denmark.