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Studies on the carrier state of cattle exposed to foot-and-mouth disease virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

R. Burrows
R. Burrows
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The Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, Surrey
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Cattle infected with FMDV strains of different epizootiological origin developed a carrier state which persisted in the majority of animals for several months. Fluid samples taken from the oesophageal/pharyngeal region were assayed for infectivity by plaque counts on BHK monolayer cultures and by mouse inoculation. With one strain of virus, infectivity levels of up to 1000 pfu/ml. were recorded for several weeks after infection but in general the virus content of samples was below 50 pfu/ml.

The sites of virus persistence and multiplication were identified by titration of suspensions of mucosae and epithelia taken post mortem. Virus was recovered from 41 of 54 cattle killed 14–196 days after infection. The chief sites of virus multiplication based on the frequency of virus recovery and infectivity titres were the dorsal surface of the soft palate and the pharynx. Virus was recovered less frequently from the ventral surface of the soft palate and the glosso-epiglottic space and only occasionally from the tonsillar sinuses, tonsils, tongue, trachea and oesophagus. No virus was detected in the turbinates or in the epithelium of the urinary bladder.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 81 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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