A NATURAL CASE OF RABIES IN DOMESTIC RABBIT

摘要

All warm-blooded animal are susceptible to rabies but not all of them are equally susceptible. The susceptibility of defferent animal species varies widely to both natural and artificial infections with rabies virus ( Kaplan, 1969 ; Tierke_1 1959 ). Experimental transmission of rabies has been possible via oral route to small animals like mice ( Correa-Giron et al 1970 ; Fischman and Schaeffer, 1971 ; Charlton and Casey, 1979 ; ) rat ( Remlinger, 1908 ), hamsters, Guinea pigs and rabbits ( Remlinger,1959 ), foxes ( Black and Lawson, 1973 ; Blancou et al 1979 ; and Svreek, 1980), Skunks (Bell and Moore. 1971 ; Ramsden aud Johnston, 1975). Under natural condition infection probably occurs by the transnasal route through the nosopharynx or by external contamination of nostrils.