title: Swine vesicular disease: pathways of infection.
abstract: The pathways of infection in swine vesicular disease have been studied by (i) an estimation of the amounts of virus required to produce infection by different artificial inoculation procedures; (ii) the distribution and amounts of virus in various tissues of pigs killed at intervals after contact infection; (iii) an investigation of the susceptibility to virus infection of pig tissue explants. The results show that pigs can be infected by a number of pathways and that the skin, as the most susceptible tissue, is probably the most frequent route of infection.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000662:veterinary*; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology; D013552:Swine; D013555:Swine Vesicular Disease / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*