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.

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