HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE MONKEY NEUROVIRULENCE OF GROUP B ARBOVIRUSES IV. EVALUATION OF AN ATTENUATED STRAIN (E5) OF LANGAT VIRUS12
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 88 (1) , 103-111
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120858
Abstract
Nathanson, N., (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Schl. Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland 21205), I. S. Thind, W. O'Leary, and W. H. Price. Histological studies of the monkey neurovirulence of group B arboviruses. IV. Evaluation of an attenuated strain (E5) of Langat virus. Amer. J. Epid., 1968, 88: 103–111.—Graded doses of the parent M3 and the attenuated E5 strain of Langat virus were inoculated intracerebrally or intraspinally into a total of 59 rhesus monkeys. Histological sections from hemispheres, brainstem and cord were evaluated for viral lesions under blind code, using a previously developed grading scale. The attenuated E5 strain showed a reduced neurovirulence, less than that of 17D Yellow fever virus and greater than that of attenuated vaccine poliovirus 3.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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