SEROLOGICAL COMPARISON OF FRENCH WD-42 ENTEROVIRUS ISOLATE WITH BOVINE WINTER DYSENTERY IN NEW-YORK STATE

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 66  (2) , 232-239
Abstract
Acute and convalescent paired sera (48) form 10 dairy cattle herds naturally infected with winter dysentery and 10 paired sera from laboratory infected heifers were tested for antibody to bovine enterovirus WD-42 which reportedly reproduced the disease syndrome in France. Only 3 naturally infected and 1 experimentally infected animals had 2-fold antibody responses. No clinical symptoms were observed in 2 steers inoculated with WD-42. Each had a 4-fold or greater antibody response to the virus. Results indicate that the winter dysentery syndrome observed in New York [USA] is produced by an agent other than WD-42 virus and that it is produced by an agent other than an enterovirus.

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