REOVIRUS-LIKE AGENT ASSOCIATED WITH NEONATAL DIARRHEA IN PRONGHORN ANTELOPE

• Published in: Journal of wildlife diseases Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 488 - 491
• Main Authors: REED, DAVID E, DALEY, CHARLES A, SHAVE, HAZEL J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wildlife Dis Assoc 01.10.1976
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Newborn - virology; Animals, Wild - virology; Antelopes - virology; Diarrhea - veterinary; Diarrhea - virology; Fatal Outcome; Feces - virology; Orthoreovirus, Mammalian - isolation & purification; Orthoreovirus, Mammalian - ultrastructure; Reoviridae Infections - diagnosis; Reoviridae Infections - epidemiology; Reoviridae Infections - pathology; Reoviridae Infections - veterinary

Reovirus-like particles were demonstrated by negative stain electron microscopic examination of the feces from antelope fawns with diarrhea. Fluorescent antibody tests on frozen sections of ileum from one dead antelope fawn and immunoelectron microscopy tests on feces from two live fawns provided ev...