Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Letter
  • Published:

Airborne Transmission of Influenza Virus Infection in Mice

Nature volume 195, pages 1129–1130 (1962)Cite this article

Abstract

THE mode of transmission of influenza has been the subject of great controversy1. Human volunteers can be experimentally infected by dropping infected fluids into the nasopharynx2, by inhalation of finely atomized liquid suspension3, or by inhalation of room air into which virus has been introduced by aerosol spray4. However, there is no direct evidence to prove whether epidemic or pandemic influenza is spread by direct contact by large droplets, or by finely dispersed airborne droplet nuclei.

Access through your institution
Buy or subscribe

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Access through your institution

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Davenport, F. M., Conf. Airborne Infection, edit. by McDermott, W., 294 (Williams and Wilkins Co., 1961).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Meiklejohn, G., J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 173, 1354 (1960).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Smorodintseff, A. A., Tushinsky, M. D., Drobshevskaya, A. I., Korovin, A. A., and Osetross, A. I., Amer. J. Med. Sci., 194, 159 (1937).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Francis, jun., T., Pearson, H. E., Salk, J. E., and Brown, P. N., Amer. J. Pub. Health, 34, 317 (1944).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. McClean, R. L., Amer. Rev. Resp. Dis., 83, Pt. 2, 36 (1961).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Andrewes, C. H., and Glover, R. E., Brit. J. Exp. Path., 22, 91 (1941).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Schulman, J. L., and Kilbourne, E. D., Fed. Proc., 21, 465a (abst.) (1962).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Wells, W. F., Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene (Harvard Univ. Press, 1955).

    Google Scholar 

  9. Williams, R. E. O., Ann. Rev. Microbiol., 14, 43 (1960).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Hemmes, J. C., Winkler, K. C., and Kool, S. M., Nature, 188, 430 (1960).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Harper, G. J., J. Hyg., 59, 479 (1961).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Virus Research, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, Now York, 21

    JEROME L. SCHULMAN & EDWIN D. KILBOURNE

Authors
  1. JEROME L. SCHULMAN
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

  2. EDWIN D. KILBOURNE
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

SCHULMAN, J., KILBOURNE, E. Airborne Transmission of Influenza Virus Infection in Mice. Nature 195, 1129–1130 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951129a0

Download citation

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1951129a0

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing