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Susceptibility of Syrian hamsters of the inbred LSH and MHA strains to injection of as few as 10 plaque-forming units of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) was shown to occur only after intraperitoneal and intrapleural injection and not after injection of VSV intravenously, intranasally, or in the footpads. Despite the fact that fewer LSH hamsters died when VSV was injected via the latter routes, the histopathology of the VSV-induced disease at early times after infection was identical irrespective of the route of virus administration. Histological examination of tissues at various times after administration of VSV by the various routes revealed that VSV exhibited tropism for lymphoreticular tissue, with the greatest amount of necrosis in the splenic periarteriolar lymphoid sheath. A similar pattern also was observed in VSV-infected tissues from genetically resistant UT1 hamsters. Infectivity titrations of various tissues at different times after intraperitoneal injection of VSV revealed that resistant UT1 hamsters began to clear virus from tissues between 40 and 48 h postinfection, whereas virus titers remained high in susceptible animals. Resistance of UT1 hamsters appeared to require an intact spleen since survival of splenectomized animals was less than that of sham-splenectomized UT1 controls. Sublethal whole-body irradiation was also able to reduce resistance of UT1 hamsters (survival was reduced from 100 to 50%). Bone marrow cells from resistant (UT1 X LSH) F1 females were transferred into lethally irradiated susceptible LSH hamsters, and hematopoietic chimeras were produced. After intraperitoneal injection of 100 plaque-forming units of VSV, all of the female chimeras survived, but only 33% of male chimeras survived. These data indicate that resistance to VSV in Syrian hamsters is mediated, at least partially, by cells of hematopoietic origin.
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PMID:Involvement of cells of hematopoietic origin in genetically determined resistance of Syrian hamsters to vesicular stomatitis virus. 627 20

The experiment describes for the first time the clinicopathological features of the co-infection of Peste des petit Ruminants (PPR) virus and Mannheimia haemolytica,in goats. Twenty clinically healthy goats, six months of age were used. 15 goats were infected by intratracheal inoculation of 1ml of pure cultured 106.5 TCID50 PPR virus grown in Baby hamster kidney cell lines, and a week later,1 ml of pure culture (109 CFU) of Mannheimia haemolytica (MH)A2 to study its clinico-pathological features and five goats served as controls. The clinical signs were observed and two goats were euthanized at predetermined intervals for gross examinations, bacteriological, virological and histopathological investigations on tissues collected using standard techniques. The clinical signs were severe and the order of manifestation was anorexia, pyrexia, dyspnea, oculo-nasal discharge, recumbency and death. The lesions observed were severe fibrinous bronchointerstitial pneumonia and pleurisy with thickened alveolar septa, edema and neutrophilic infiltrations of the interstitium with giant cells. There was also marked erosive stomatitis and acute enteritis. The average percentage lung consolidation for the infection was 7.01% and the right lung was more affected (p<0.05) while the overall mortality was 33.3%. MHA:2 and PPR virus were re-isolated from the lungs. The clinicopathological features observed showed that goats were susceptible to co- infection of PPR and Mannheimiosis which was severe and fatal. The data should help veterinarians and other medical experts to recognize cases of bacterial complicated viral infection and be informed of the approach to the treatment of such conditions.
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PMID:Clinicopathological observations in experimental peste des petit ruminants virus and Mannheimia haemolytica A:2 co-infection in goats. 2365 26