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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:31:48 +0000
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Dear Colleagues, 
 
Although mentioned once or twice in passing we haven't heard much about seromonitoring during the conference.
 
As some participants know I am not greatly in favour of seromonitoring as a general follow-up to vaccination campaigns.  It is expensive, the results usually arrive too late to be of use, and when they do arrive in time there are insufficient resources for a re-vaccination.  I know it has an important role in disease investigation where vaccine failure is a possibility and is obviously needed for epidemiological studies but as a routine accompaniment  to vaccination.....mmm?  In rinderpest eradication we did a lot of sero-monitoring but I reckon that the most useful thing to come out of it was to train the laboratories to high levels of competence for the much more important sero-surveillance when vaccination ceased.   Money saved on seromonitoring can be used for extra epidemiology such as disease search etc. 
 
Would anyone care to put me right on this?
regards,- Moderator.

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