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EARLY in 1966 we demonstrated antibodies to influenza B virus in stocks of swine which had been affected by an influenza-like disease late in 1965, during, or immediately after, an influenza B epidemic1. Piglets were inoculated intranasally with an early egg passage of an influenza B strain isolated from the 1965 epidemic. An inoculated piglet developed specific antibodies, a contact piglet gave an equivocal response. In the more extensive study reported here, experimental conditions were carefully controlled to give unequivocal results.
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Takátsy, G., Romváry, J., and Farkas, E., Acta Microbiol. Acad. Sci. Hung., 14, 309 (1967).
Takátsy, G., Acta Microbiol. Acad. Sci. Hung., 3, 191 (1955).
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TAKÁTSY, G., FARKAS, E. & ROMVÁRY, J. Susceptibility of the Domestic Pig to Influenza B Virus. Nature 222, 184–185 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222184a0
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