REOVIRUSES IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN MAN
REOVIRUSES IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN MAN
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1962.tb18886.x
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
ROSEN, L
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作者:
ROSEN, L
Reoviruses are of special interest in comparative virology because the strains which have been recovered from lower animals are, with certain possible exceptions, indistinguishable from those which have been recovered from man. Moreover, these viruses infect such a variety of wild and domestic mammals that more than routine curiosity is aroused about their natural history. The species of animals from which reoviruses have been recovered and the serotypes isolated are shown in TABLE 1. In addition to the species listed in this table, hemagglutination inhibition (HI)“antibodies” have been detected in guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, swine, horses, and in several genera of monkeys from the New World.‘Since these antibodies are found in some, but not all, sera tested from each species; and since individual sera from the same species often have antibodies to different serotypes; it is likely that these antibodies reflect actual infection with reoviruses. All available data indicate that reoviruses in animals, as in man, are ubiquitous in geographic distribution. Thus, antibodies have been found in cattle on relatively isolated islands in the South Pacific and also in the sera of monkeys shortly after their capture in the forests of Panama.‘The similarity between reoviruses of human and animal origin was first noted in serological tests with antisera prepared in laboratory animals. 2 These relationships have been confirmed as additional kinds of data have become available. So far as they have been studied, animal and human strains produce the same type of cytopathic effect, replicate in the same varieties of tissue cultures, hemagglutinate the same species of erythrocyte, and give rise to similar antigenic responses in their natural hosts. As an example of the latter point, it was found that cattle with naturally acquired reovirus type 1 infections often develop heterotypic HI antibodies to types 2 and 3, whereas cattle with natural type 3 infections develop only homotypic HI antib~ dies.~ The same serological responses have been noted in naturally infected~ hildren.~,~ Furthermore, cattle have been experimentally infected intranasally with each of the three serotypes of human origin, 6 and human volunteers have been infected intranasally with reovirus type 1 of bovine origin.’TABLE 2 shows the antibody titers found when the sera of children and calves naturally infected with reoviruses were tested with antigens prepared with isolates from various animal species. A reovirus of the type indicated was recovered from each of the children and calves whose sera were employed. In addition, only those serum pairs which showed an essentially homotypic response when tested with the three human prototype strains and which were without pre-existing HI antibody to these strains were used. It is known that each of the calves except one was experiencing its first reovirus infection. The children were all less than 4 years of age. Since young animals undergoing their first infection with a virus of a particular family usually exhibit the most