TRANSMISSION OF FOWL-POX BY MOSQUITOES
| Autor: | Thomas M. Rivers, I. J. Kligler, R. S. Muckenfuss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Fowlpox
Veterinary medicine animal structures Culex Fowl viruses Immunology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Article Immunity parasitic diseases medicine Immunology and Allergy Ingestion Aedes biology Inoculation business.industry Transmission (medicine) Proboscis fungi Outbreak virus diseases medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology business Disease transmission |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Experimental Medicine |
| ISSN: | 0022-1007 |
| Popis: | The mode of transmission of certain virus diseases of chickens is still obscure. Fowl-pox as well as fowl plague are common diseases of the barnyard, both, according to reports, occurring during the spring and fall months. Many workers1, 2 state that attempts to infect by contact or by ingestion of infected foodstuffs usually fail. These facts suggested the possibility of insect transmission.Since fowl plague is not prevalent in this country our experiments were conducted with fowl-pox. Using Culex and Aedes mosquitoes it was possible to transfer the disease from infected to healthy fowls with considerable regularity by interrupting the mosquitoes after they began feeding on infected areas of the diseased chicken and allowing them to complete their meal on the comb or wattles of healthy ones. Positive transmission of the disease was obtained even when the interval between feedings was 2 hours. As a rule, 7 days after the feeding, typical minute vesicles appeared on the normal fowl wherever the proboscis o... |
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