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The effect of air ionization on the air-borne transmission of experimental Newcastle disease virus infections in chickens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Timo Estola ,
Paavo mäkelä  and
Tapani Hovi
Timo Estola
Affiliation:
State Veterinary Medical Institute, Helsinki
Paavo mäkelä
Affiliation:
Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki
Tapani Hovi
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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The effect of artificial air-ionization on air-borne transmission of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection in chickens was studied in an isolated system consisting of two side-by-side cages with solid walls and a wire-gauze roof. During a 3-week observation period more than 90% of the uninoculated indicator chickens, housed in one of the cages, contracted the virus shed to the air by the NDV-inoculated, diseased birds in the neighbouring cage. This air-borne transmission of NDV was completely prevented by increasing the ion concentration in the test room by a constant negative corona discharge above the wire-gauze roof. On the other hand, spreading of the infection within a group of chickens housed in a single cage was not affected by air ionization.

These and other results suggest that artificial air-ionization may protect animals from certain air-borne infections by interfering with microbial aerosol formation and/or by facilitating their decay.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , August 1979 , pp. 59 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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