Preliminary observations on the uptake poliovirus by West Coast shore crabs.

  • 1 January 1972
    • journal article
    • Vol. 23  (1) , 170-1
Abstract
West Coast shore crabs (Pachygrapsus sp. and Hemigrapsus sp.), when in seawater contaminated with poliovirus or allowed to feed on virus-contaminated mussels (Mytilus californianus), were found to accumulate high titers of virus.