Authors: Gillett JD
Publish Date: 1958/05/01
Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 269-271
Abstract
JD Gillett Laboratory tests on the maintenance of yellow fever virus in certain predatory arthropods Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 52 Issue 3 May 1958 Pages 269–271 https//doiorg/101016/0035920358900865The possibility has been considered that certain predatory arthropods might have access to the virus of yellow fever by feeding on infected mosquitoes and that the virus might find its way back to monkeys by the oral route if these arthropods were in turn eaten by the monkeysThe arthropods spiders and Emesine bugs samples of which were first shown to be attractive as food for monkeys were inoculated into groups of mice at varying intervals after feeding on mosquitoes which had been infected with yellow fever virusNo virus was recovered from them at any time from 3 days to 42 months after they had fed on the infected mosquitoes
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