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Domestic chickens were found to be susceptible to infection with all the arboviruses tested except Dengue 1. Inoculation by a variety of routes resulted in a period of viraemia lasting from one to eleven days, followed by the onset of antibody production. The duration of the viraemia appeared to be proportional to the age of embryo or chicken at the time of inoculation.
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Isolations were made from 18 of 802 chickens tested for persistence of virus in organs after the cessation of the viraemic state either by direct assay of organ suspensions or, preferably, by culture of organ tissue. Seventeen of the eighteen isolations were made from birds circulating detectable HI or PN antibody.
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Multiple doses of virus or treatment of infected chickens with cortisone acetate reduced the levels of antibody produced but had no apparent effect on the re-isolation rate.
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A variety of stressing agents applied to birds previously inoculated with several arboviruses failed to produce recurrent viraemias or to increase the number of isolations.
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Maguire, T., Miles, J.A.R. The persistence of arboviruses in domestic chickens. Archiv f Virusforschung 15, 441–456 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245237
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