id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-004713-gzts5h0y Fennestad, K. L. Pathogenetic observations on pleural effusion disease in rabbits 1985 .txt text/plain 3596 193 53 A pathogenetic study of pleural effusion disease (PED) in rabbits was made, using the virulent PED agent or virus (PEDV) and an avirulent derivate of this isolate. Support for this contention is the enhancement of virulence of PED virus (PEDV) observed in the "natural" disease and --after its isolation --by continued serial propagation in rabbits at intervals of 3---10 days (Fig. 1) . However, there is also evidence which might suggest that increasing time of persistence of virulent virus in the individual rabbit host may operate in the reverse direction by selecting a population of predominantly avirulent PEDV particles, which appear to be unable to cause disease unless undergoing new rabbit passages at short intervals (t, 6). After infection with the avirulent derivate, the isolates from serum obtained during the entire period of viraemia were demonstrable in serum dilution 10 -1 to 10 -a, but the primary rabbit inoculation of these dilutions never resulted in clinical signs of PED. ./cache/cord-004713-gzts5h0y.txt ./txt/cord-004713-gzts5h0y.txt