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Studies on vertical and horizontal transmission of duck plague virus in apparently healthy waterfowl Studies on vertical and horizontal transmission of duck plague virus in apparently healthy waterfowl

Healthy waterfowl were found to be carriers of duck plague (DP) virus. Black ducks (Anas rubripes) and Canada geese (Branta canadensis) surviving a natural outbreak of DP at Coloma, Wisconsin, in 1973 yielded DP virus in cloacal swabs taken four years postinfection. Experimental infection of previously unexposed mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynochos) with the Coloma strain of DP virus CO-WI...
Authors
Elizabeth C. Burgess

Duck plague: carrier state and gross pathology in black ducks Duck plague: carrier state and gross pathology in black ducks

Duck plague (UP) is a highly fatal disease of ducks, geese, and swans (family Anatidae), produced by a reticulo-endotheliotrophic virus classified as a member of the Herpesvirus group. The disease was recognized in Europe in 1949. On the American continent, the disease was first diagnosed in the United States in 1967. Very little is known of DP virus ecology, particularly of the...
Authors
Jorge E. Ossa

Ecology of the Western Gray Squirrel Ecology of the Western Gray Squirrel

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Authors
D. A. Barnum
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