Reovirus type 1 and small wild mammals in a mixed focus of virus infections in France.
During field studies of a natural focus of Eyach virus infection in Western France, reovirus type 1 was isolated from tissues of a field mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus L., caught in 1982. Serological survey carried out in the same area among 118 small wild vertebrates, mainly mammals, showed a wide-spread circulation of this agent in 1982 and 1983. Epidemiological consequences of such results are briefly discussed in terms of virus interactions.
Chastel
C
C
Quillien
M C
MC
Couatarmanac'h
A
A
Le Lay
G
G
Beaucournu
J C
JC
D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D000828:Animal Population Groups; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D005602:France; D012089:Mammalian orthoreovirus 3 / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012087:Reoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013045:Species Specificity