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RECENTLY, we observed an outbreak of a disease in indigenous cattle at Gikongoro, Ruanda-Urundi, characterized by lesions on the teats and occasionally on other parts of the body and on the buccal mucosa. Material was obtained from nine cases, and with each sample transmission experiments were carried out in cattle. Following intradermal inoculation or scarification of the mucous membrane of the tongue, a definite reaction was noticed in five out of nine animals. This reaction was characterized by the development of necrotic lesions at the inoculation site, which showed some resemblance to those described in both natural and experimental cases of lumpy skin disease1–3.
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HUYGELEN, C., THIENPONT, D. & VANDERVELDEN, M. Isolation of a Cytopathogenic Agent from Skin Lesions of Cattle. Nature 186, 979–980 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186979b0
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