744 Etiology and Transmission of Epidemic Diarrhea
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Diarrhea of infant mice, aside from its economic importance to breeding colonies, is the cause of considerable trouble in laboratories using such animals for investigafional purposes. A description of this disease, its epidemiology and pathology have been reported in some detail (1-6), and a few transmission experiments have been conducted by Cheerer and Mueller (1). Although the results of their studies pointed toward a viral etiology, these authors did not feel that their data furnished sufficient evidence to establish the disease as more than "almost surely" infectious, for "experimental investigation of the condition offers extraordinary difficulties" primarily due to the hardships encountered in keeping a healthy and susceptible stock of mice free of the disease. This report will present evidence from transmission experiments that diarrhea of infant mice of the CFW strain is indeed infectious and communicable; in addition, the nature of the etiologic agent will be indicated in a preliminary fashion.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003