ISOLATION OF THE VACCINE STRAIN OF VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS FROM MOSQUITOES IN LOUISIANA
- 1 May 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 95 (5) , 490-496
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a121416
Abstract
Pederson, C. E., Jr., D. M. Robinson and F. E. Cole, Jr. (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Md. 21701). Isolation of the vaccine strain of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus from mosquitoes in Louisiana. Am J Epidemiol 95: 490–496, 1972.—During the 1971 epizootic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis the TC-83 vaccine strain was isolated from a pool of Psorophora confinnis mosquitoes collected in Evangeline Parrish, Louisiana. The identity of the isolate was confirmed by (a) animal studies using mice, guinea pigs and hamsters, and (b) immunologic techniques including kinetic hemagglutination inhibition, kinetic neutralization, and gel diffusion. The significance of this isolation is discussed in regard to the ecology and epidemiology of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus.Keywords
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