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PSITTACOSIS : I. EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED INFECTIONS IN PARROTS

1. The virus of psittacosis is present in the nasal secretions, feces, blood, spleen, and liver of an infected parrot. 2. Parrots are susceptible to intraoral, intranasal, or intramuscular inoculations of the virus. 3. The most constant pathological changes produced by psittacosis in parrots occur i...

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Autores principales: Rivers, T. M., Berry, G. P., Sprunt, D. H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1931
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2132049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19869904
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description 1. The virus of psittacosis is present in the nasal secretions, feces, blood, spleen, and liver of an infected parrot. 2. Parrots are susceptible to intraoral, intranasal, or intramuscular inoculations of the virus. 3. The most constant pathological changes produced by psittacosis in parrots occur in the spleen and liver. The lesions exhibited in the latter organ consist of areas of necrotic liver cells and damage to bile ducts. In no instance, in our experience, were lesions observed in a parrot's lungs comparable to those found in the lungs of men. 4. "Minute bodies" similar to those described by Levinthal and others were found in many, but not in all of the infected birds. 5. Parrots that have recovered from one attack of psittacosis exhibit an active immunity against reinfection.
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spelling pubmed-21320492008-04-18 PSITTACOSIS : I. EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED INFECTIONS IN PARROTS Rivers, T. M. Berry, G. P. Sprunt, D. H. J Exp Med Article 1. The virus of psittacosis is present in the nasal secretions, feces, blood, spleen, and liver of an infected parrot. 2. Parrots are susceptible to intraoral, intranasal, or intramuscular inoculations of the virus. 3. The most constant pathological changes produced by psittacosis in parrots occur in the spleen and liver. The lesions exhibited in the latter organ consist of areas of necrotic liver cells and damage to bile ducts. In no instance, in our experience, were lesions observed in a parrot's lungs comparable to those found in the lungs of men. 4. "Minute bodies" similar to those described by Levinthal and others were found in many, but not in all of the infected birds. 5. Parrots that have recovered from one attack of psittacosis exhibit an active immunity against reinfection. The Rockefeller University Press 1931-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2132049/ /pubmed/19869904 Text en Copyright © Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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title_short PSITTACOSIS : I. EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED INFECTIONS IN PARROTS
title_sort psittacosis : i. experimentally induced infections in parrots
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