NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS CONJUNCTIVITIS INDUCED IN HUMAN SUBJECTS EXPERIMENTALLY

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is the cause of a specific epizootic infection among fowl (avian pseudo-plague, or avian pneumoencephalitis) can give rise to conjunctival inflammation in man, sometimes accompanied by light general symptoms. The experiments studied the transmissibility to man of NDV cultivated in chicken embryos. A vial of allantoic fluid from chicken embryos infected with the virus was deposited on the mucosa of the conjunctival fornix of the left eye of each of five volunteer subjects.
Trans. of Societa Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, Naples. Bollettino, v27 p700-702 1951.