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House sparrows, Passer domesticus (L.), as hosts of arboviruses in Hale County, Texas: II. Laboratory studies with western equine encephalitis virus
Preston Holden
Preston Holden
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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D. Bruce Francy
D. Bruce Francy
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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Carl J. Mitchell
Carl J. Mitchell
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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Richard O. Hayes
Richard O. Hayes
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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John S. Lazuick
John S. Lazuick
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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Thomas B. Hughes
Thomas B. Hughes
Arboviral Disease Section, Ecological Investigations Program, Center for Disease Control, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Post Office Box 551, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
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Western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus was artificially inoculated into nestling progeny of two flocks of house sparrows, Passer domesticus, one flock of which contained WEE-hemagglutination inhibition (HI) positive breeders and the other WEE-HI negative breeders. Ten-day-old chickens from WEE-immune and nonimmune flocks were similarly tested. Nestlings 4 to 16 days old from the immune flock were seemingly as susceptible to infection with WEE virus as were birds of the same age from the nonimmune flock. However, as shown earlier by other workers, chickens hatched from WEE-immune parents were uniformly refractory to infection with WEE virus. The results obtained in this study serve as a basis for explaining how the high annual incidence of WEE virus infection can occur among nestling house sparrows that are progeny of birds from a population in which the average WEE antibody prevalence ranged from 36% to 56%.
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Deceased 15 May 1972.
Present address: Vector Biology and Control, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Address: Arboviral Disease Section, Texas Activity, 308 South Broadway, Plainview, Texas 79072.
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