Uasin Gishu skin disease of horses in Kenya.
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1975Author
Kaminjolo, JS Jr.
Johnson, LW
Muhammed, SI
Berger, J
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Materials from 12 horses with a skin condition resembling "Uasin Gishu" skin disease were examined. Electron microscopic study revealed poxvirus from scab and biopsy preparations from 9 horses with typical skin lesions. Virus was also isolated in calf kidney cultures from all these specimens. Virus was not seen or isolated in tissue culture from 3 other horses with non-specific lesions, which were associated with Microsporum gypseum. It therefore seems that Uasin Gishu skin disease is caused by a poxvirus.
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http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19772200274.html?resultNumber=10&start=10&q=au%3A%22Kaminjolo%2C+J.+S.%2C+Jr.%22http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86884
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Bulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa 1975 Vol. 23 No. 3 pp.Publisher
University of Nairobi