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D Chasey

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Investigation of immunoperoxidase-labelled rotavirus in tissue culture by light and electron microscopy.

A tissue culture-adapted strain of bovine rotavirus, grown in calf kidney monolayers, has been examined by light and electron microscopy after immunoperoxidase labelling. Some of the characteristic problems associated with pre-embedding methods have been demonstrated. Preparative techniques involving pretreatment of infected cells with a detergent followed by a detergent/fixative combination have enabled virus antigen to be labelled while maintaining satisfactory ultrastructural preservation.

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The demonstration of maedi/visna virus in sheep in Great Britain.

A virus indistinguishable from that causing maedi/visna has been isolated from a sheep flock in Great Britain. The virus was identified in cell cultures using immunofluorescent and electron microscopical techniques. The complement fixation test and the agar gel immunodiffusion test were used to assess the proportion of serological reactors within the flock. There has been no evidence of clinical disease in the flock into which foreign imports were introduced in the years prior to 1976.

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Virus-like particles associated with porcine epidemic diarrhoea.

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea type II was reproduced in experimental pigs of various ages by oral dosing with minced intestine from a naturally occurring case of the disease. Virus-like particles which probably represent an unidentified coronavirus were seen by electron microscopy in the faeces and intestinal epithelium of infected animals.

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Detection of rotavirus in experimentally infected piglets.

Scouring and vomiting was induced in piglets by experimental infection with a field strain of rotavirus. Virus or viral antigen was detected in the small intestine by the fluorescent antibody technique and virus could also be demonstrated in infected tissue culture cells by immuno-fluorescence. Progeny particles in the epithelial layer of the small intestine were identified by electron microscopy. Three morphological types could be distinguished, often associated with electron-dense inclusion, and infected cells, though small in number, were present throughout the length of the small intestine.

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Morphogenesis of avian infectious bronchitis virus in primary chick kidney cells.

Primary chick kidney cells were infected with avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and examined by electron microscopy. Virus particles entered the cells by viropexis and distinction could be made between engulfment by cell processes (phagocytosis) and entry by micropinocytosis in coated transport vesicles. Virus maturation occurred by budding into either the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum or cytoplasmic vacuoles, and evidence was obtained to suggest that the viral surface projections could be attached during the budding process. Late in infection large numbers of virus particles were present, mainly in cytoplasmic vacuoles, and the majority were released by cell lysis. Release by fusion of vacuoles with the plasma membrane was also observed, and individual virions could be transported from the endoplasmic reticulum to the surface within coated vesicles.

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Rabbit haemorrhagic disease in the United Kingdom.

In April 1992, an investigation of sudden, increased mortality among adult rabbits on two premises in the south of England revealed clinical and pathological findings consistent with rabbit haemorrhagic disease. Virus particles morphologically resembling caliciviruses were detected in the livers of affected rabbits, and further studies confirmed the first recorded cases of rabbit haemorrhagic disease in the United Kingdom.

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Susceptibility of wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in the United Kingdom to rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD).

Adult wild rabbits from the southern UK, previously unexposed to rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD), were experimentally challenged with a UK strain of the virus in laboratory conditions. Initial serum antibodies were measured by an haemagglutination inhibition test and all seropositive rabbits, with reciprocal titres > 10, were protected against fatal infection. These results are consistent with the behaviour of laboratory and commercially bred rabbits in similar circumstances, and are relevant to consideration of the overall impact of RHD in wild populations.

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