title: Response of white-tailed deer to infection with peste des petits ruminants virus.
abstract: White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were infected experimentally with two strains of peste des petits ruminants virus. The response varied from fatal consequence to subclinical infection. The clinical signs and gross lesions were similar to those in goats. Virus was recovered from all the infected deer, and survivors developed specific antibodies demonstrated by complement fixation and virus neutralization tests. Survivors also resisted challenge with virulent rinderpest virus that was lethal to a control deer.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, Long Island, New York 11944, USA.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Hamdy
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Dardiri
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D003670:Deer / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology; D008297:Male; D009500:Neutralization Tests / Q000662:veterinary; D029021:Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants / Q000662:veterinary*; D018107:Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral