Isolation of rabies virus from common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Czechoslovakia
Shvrchek, S.; Aleksander, R.; Vrtiak, O.I.; Machichka, O.; Grulikh, I.
Acta Veterinaria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 28(1): 21-26
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-7205 PMID: 7246383 Document Number: 167707
Experiments were conducted in 1972-1973 on 283 carcasses of the common hamster collected from 7 localities of eastern Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, in order to clarify the role of the hamster in the ecology of the rabies virus. Rabies antigen was isolated in 5 of the 283 hamster carcasses using direct immunofluorescence; a bioprobe test on suckling mice succeeded in isolating only 3 virus strains (3O, 7E, 9E). A comparable study was made with 196 carcasses of the common mole (Talpa europaea) but the results proved negative.