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Experimental infection of Common Terns with Tern virus: Influenza Virus A/Tern/South Africa/1961

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. B. Becker
W. B. Becker
Affiliation:
C.S.I.R. and U.C.T. Virus Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Experimental infection of captive Common Terns with Influenza virus A/Tern/South Africa/1961 reproduced the disease seen in the 1961 epizootic during which Tern virus was originally isolated. Infected terns excreted virus in their droppings. At death a viraemia was present but immunofluorescent studies determined the sites at which virus reproduction occurred. A Swift Tern suffered no ill effect from the injection of Tern virus but developed HI antibodies. The role of migrant sea-birds in spreading avian influenza is briefly discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 1967 , pp. 61 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

References

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