title: Attempted artificaial infection or impala, blue wildebeest, buffalo, kudu, giraffe and warthog with heartwater.
abstract: Intravenous injection of Cowdria ruminantium infected blood produced no sings of disease in four impala, Aepyceros melampus; three blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus; a buffalo, Syncerus caffer; a kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros; a giraffe. Giraffa camelopardalis and a warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus. a control sheep injected with the same blood reacted severely and showed typical lesions of heartwater at autopsy.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001188:Artiodactyla; D002020:Buffaloes; D005334:Fever / Q000662:veterinary; D006357:Heartwater Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000209:etiology*