Accession Number:

AD0838803

Title:

NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS CONJUNCTIVITIS INDUCED IN HUMAN SUBJECTS EXPERIMENTALLY

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY BIOLOGICAL LABS FREDERICK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Latte, B.
• Pino, G.

Report Date:

1965-07-15

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

Newcastle disease virus NDV is the cause of a specific epizootic infection among fowl avian pseudo-plague, or avian pneumoencephalitis can give rise to conjunctival inflammation in man, sometimes accompanied by light general symptoms. The experiments studied the transmissibility to man of NDV cultivated in chicken embryos. A vial of allantoic fluid from chicken embryos infected with the virus was deposited on the mucosa of the conjunctival fornix of the left eye of each of five volunteer subjects.

Descriptors:

• *NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS
• HUMANS
• ITALY
• TRANSLATIONS
• EYE
• PATHOLOGY
• VIRUS DISEASES
• ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTIONS
• EMBRYONATED EGG TECHNIQUE

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE