MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER VIRUS IN NASAL SECRETIONS OF WILDEBEEST: A PROBABLE MECHANISM FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION1

M. M. RWEYEMAMU; L. KARSTAD; E. Z. MUSHI; J. C. OTEMA; D. M. JESSETT; L. ROWE; S. DREVEMO; J. G. GROOTENHUIS

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-10.4.478

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1 October 1974 MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER VIRUS IN NASAL SECRETIONS OF WILDEBEEST: A PROBABLE MECHANISM FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION

M. M. RWEYEMAMU, L. KARSTAD, E. Z. MUSHI, J. C. OTEMA, D. M. JESSETT, L. ROWE, S. DREVEMO, J. G. GROOTENHUIS

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 10(4):478-487 (1974). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-10.4.478

Abstract

The virus of malignant catarrhal fever (MCFV) was isolated from the nasal secretions of 6 of 66 recently captured blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus). Ten MCFV isolates were made from 131 nasal swab specimens but only one isolate was obtained from 168 blood samples. All MCFV isolates from nasal secretions were from wildebeest in captivity, under the stresses of confinement, changes in nutrition, or after injections of a corticosteroid drug, betamethasone. One isolate of MCFV was made from the tonsils of a pregnant wildebeest. It is postulated that nasal shedding of MCFV may be a mechanism for transmission of virus among wildebeest and from wildebeest to cattle.

RWEYEMAMU, KARSTAD, MUSHI, OTEMA, JESSETT, ROWE, DREVEMO, and GROOTENHUIS: MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER VIRUS IN NASAL SECRETIONS OF WILDEBEEST: A PROBABLE MECHANISM FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION1

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M. M. RWEYEMAMU, L. KARSTAD, E. Z. MUSHI, J. C. OTEMA, D. M. JESSETT, L. ROWE, S. DREVEMO, and J. G. GROOTENHUIS "MALIGNANT CATARRHAL FEVER VIRUS IN NASAL SECRETIONS OF WILDEBEEST: A PROBABLE MECHANISM FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 10(4), 478-487, (1 October 1974). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-10.4.478

Received: 29 March 1974; Published: 1 October 1974

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