EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS OF BIRDS WITH TURLOCK VIRUS
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases
- Vol. 19 (2) , 82-85
- https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-19.2.82
Abstract
Two experiments were conducted with 5 gallinaceous and 1 passerine bird species to determine their responses to Turlock (TUR) virus inoculations. Inoculation of TUR strain 847-32 into bobwhites, chukars, ring-necked pheasants, chickens and Japanese quail did not produce detectable viremias. The first 4 spp. did respond with neutralizing antibody. Inoculation of chickens with strain 69V-1095 resulted in a viremia which lasted 5 days and had a peak mean titer of 2.0 log10 [plaque-forming unit]per0.2 ml of blood on the 3rd day after infection. The observation that viremic birds exhibited no noticeable virus-associated morbidity or mortality suggested that TUR virus does not have a detrimental effect on free-ranging populations of the avian hosts studied.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Radioimmune Assays and Molecular Studies that Place Anopheles B and Turlock Serogroup Viruses in the Bunyavirus Genus (Bunyaviridae)The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1981