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Interaction between duck hepatitis virus and DDT in ducks Interaction between duck hepatitis virus and DDT in ducks

Injections of duck hepatitis virus (DVH) decreased, and exposure to DDT increased, hepatic microsomal mixed-function oxidase activity. Injection of DFV prior to exposure to DDT did not prevent stimulation of hepatic microsomal mixed-function oxidase activity by DDT and may have enhanced it.
Authors
W.L. Ragland, Milton Friend, D.O. Trainer, N.E. Sladek

Yersinia philomiragia sp. n., a new member of the Pasteurella group of bacteria, naturally pathogenic for the muskrat (Ondatra zibethica) Yersinia philomiragia sp. n., a new member of the Pasteurella group of bacteria, naturally pathogenic for the muskrat (Ondatra zibethica)

A bacterium experimentally pathogenic for muskrats (Ondatra zibethica), white mice, mountain voles (Microtus montanus), and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) was isolated from the tissues of a sick muskrat captured on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (Brigham City, Utah) and from four surface water samples collected within 15 miles of that point. In culture, the cells are chiefly...
Authors
W. Jensen, C.R. Owen, W.L. Jellison

The occurrence of Oestrus ovis L. (Diptera: Oestridae) in the bighorn sheep from Wyoming and Montana The occurrence of Oestrus ovis L. (Diptera: Oestridae) in the bighorn sheep from Wyoming and Montana

Three previous and five new records of the domestic sheep bot, Oestrus ovis, from the bighorn sheep are given. The life history and descriptions of adult and larval forms are presented. The significance of the occurrence of the parasite in the abnormal host is discussed.
Authors
K.J. Capelle
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