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West nile virus infection of adult mice by oral route

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Adult Swiss albino mice were fed orally with suspensions of a strain of West Nile virus isolated in Nigeria. Most of these mice became sick and died 7 days post feeding and virus was recovered from organs of such infected mice. Histological lesions were observed in some tissues and antibody to the strain of West Nile virus developed in mice that survived infection.

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  1. Virus Research Laboratory and Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    H. A. Odelola & O. O. Oduye

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  1. H. A. Odelola
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Virus Research Laboratory is supported in part by the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, U.S.A.

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Odelola, H.A., Oduye, O.O. West nile virus infection of adult mice by oral route. Archives of Virology 54, 251–253 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314791

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