Experimental vector and wildlife host ranges of buttonwillow virus in Kern County, California
Hardy, J.L.; Lyness, R.N.; Rush, W.A.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 21(2): 100-109
1972
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9637 PMID: 4399841 Document Number: 55827
The following is substantially the authors' abstract. Selected wild vertebrates and haematophagous arthropods indigenous to Kern County, California, were evaluated as experimental hosts and vectors of Buttonwillow virus. Vertebrate hosts were inoculated subcutaneously with approximately 1000 plaque-forming units of virus, and arthropods were fed on cotton pads soaked with high concentrations of virus in defibrinated blood or on viraemic examples of Sylvilagus audubonii.