Frederick Glyn Davies.

A vet who made a substantial contribution to tropical veterinary virology.

An ultrastructural study of an ascitic syndrome in young broilers reared at high altitude.

This study examined the ultrastructure of tissues from young broilers with an ascitic syndrome collected from a farm near Nairobi, Kenya which is located at an altitude of 1500 m. All organs (kidney, liver, heart, spleen and lungs) revealed more severe changes than those previously reported in age-matched birds during a low altitude study.

The prevalence of antibody to camel pox virus in six different herds in Kenya.

Serum neutralizing antibody to camel pox virus was found in 5 out of 6 camel herds in Kenya. This was not related to recently observed clinical disease in the herds.

Rift Valley fever in Kenya: the presence of antibody to the virus in camels (Camelus dromedarius).

Five hundred and seventy-one camel sera collected after an epizootic of Rift Valley Fever were examined for antibody to the virus. Clinical disease had not been observed in cattle and sheep in the ecosystems shared with the camels. Positive sera with high titres of serum neutralizing antibody were found in 22% of camels at one of the seven sampling sites.