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Nairobi sheep disease: the survival of the virus in the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

E. Aneurin Lewis
E. Aneurin Lewis
Affiliation:
Veterinary Research Laboratory, Kabete, Kenya Colony
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Montgomery (1917) showed that Nairobi sheep disease, a tick-borne gastro-enteritis of sheep and goats in East Africa, was caused by a filtrable virus transmitted most commonly by the brown tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. The transmission of the disease by this tick was confirmed by Daubney & Hudson (1931, 1934), who demonstrated also that ticks infected in any instar usually transmitted the disease when fed in the succeeding stage on susceptible sheep; and that the virus ingested by a female fed on an infected sheep passed through the eggs to the larvae of the next generation.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 37 , Issue 1-2 , January 1946 , pp. 55 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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