Ilemobade A A, Blotkamp C
Trop Anim Health Prod. 1978 Feb;10(1):39-44. doi: 10.1007/BF02235302.
A study was carried out to determine which materials from animals dying or dead of heartwater could initiate the disease in susceptible goats, using the intravenous and subcutaneous routes. C. ruminantium was consistently isolated by intravenous injection of the whole blood or of lung macrophages and by subcutaneous injection of brain homogenate. In animals dead of heartwater, it appeared that isolation of the organism was achieved only when extensive post-mortem autolysis had not supervened. Experiments with blood fractions showed that leucocytic and plasma fractions of infective blood transmitted heartwater; the erythrocytic fraction consistently failed to induce an infection.
开展了一项研究，以确定来自动物因心水病死亡或濒死的哪些材料可通过静脉内和皮下途径在易感山羊中引发该病。通过静脉注射全血或肺巨噬细胞以及皮下注射脑匀浆，始终能分离到反刍兽考德里氏体。在因心水病死亡的动物中，似乎只有在死后未发生广泛自溶的情况下才能分离到该病原体。血液组分实验表明，感染性血液的白细胞和血浆组分可传播心水病；红细胞组分始终未能引发感染。
