Abstract
Conclusions
The Syrian hamster readily becomes infected when small amounts of the viruses of Eastern, Western, or West Nile encephalitis are inoculated by peripheral routes. The viruses appear in the circulating blood of the infected animals and the diseases usually terminate fatally.
The hamster should prove useful in experiments dealing with insect transmission of these 3 agents and with the resistance of treated animals to infection.
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