TY - JOUR
AU - Hanson, R. P.
AB - NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS IN SWINE WITH THE VIRUS OF EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS LARS KARSTAD AND R. P. HANSON From the Department of Veterinary Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 6, Wisconsin two- to three-month-old cross-bred pigs to Evidence of naturally occurring in­ varying amounts of the virus administered by fections in swine with the virus of east­ the following routes: intravenous, intradermal ern equine encephalitis was first re­ and intracerebral inoculation and intranasal ported in 1958. Virus-neutralizing anti­ instillation. The number of pigs exposed by each bodies were found in the serums of feral route and the doses of virus used are presented in table 1. Two susceptible swine were maintained swine in Georgia (Karstad and Hanson, in direct contact with animals inoculated by 1958) and in domestic swine in New each of the above routes. Daily observations were Jersey (Feemster et aI, 1958). This made and body temperatures were recorded for paper presents evidence for the nat­ 10 days following inoculation. Preinoculation and ural occurrence of the infection in 14 day postinoculation serum samples were ob­ tabled and tested for virus-neutralizing anti­ swine in Wisconsin as well as a descrip­ bodies. Blood was drawn at 48-hour intervals for 
TI - Natural and Experimental Infections in Swine with the Virus of Eastern EQuine Encephalitis
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/105.3.293
DA - 1959-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/natural-and-experimental-infections-in-swine-with-the-virus-of-eastern-RpcNLos0Hj
SP - 293
EP - 296
VL - 105
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -