Fatal Disease of Swine Due to Encephalomyocarditis Virus
Abstract
Encephalomyocarditis virus was isolated from the organs of swine dying during an outbreak of an acutely fatal disease occurring on a farm in Panama. The outstanding lesion was severe myocarditis. Pigs inoculated with the viral isolate developed a systemic infection with myocarditis.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1960
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.131.3399.498
- Bibcode:
- 1960Sci...131..498M