CORRIPARTA VIRUS: PROPERTIES AND MULTIPLICATION IN EXPERIMENTALLY-INOCULATED MOSQUITOES1

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Carley, J. G. and H. A. Standfast (). Corriparta virus: properties and multiplication in experimentally-inoculated mosquitoes. Amer. J. Epid., 1969, 89: 583–592.—Corriparta virus, isolated from mosquitoes (Culex annulirostris Skuse 1889) collected in north Queensland, was shown to multiply in the salivary glands of inoculated C. fatigant Wiedeman 1828, and was recovered without loss of titer after five mosquito salivary gland passages. It can, therefore, be accepted as anarbovirus, as the term is currently used. The virus differed, however, from most arboviruses in being resistant to sodium deoxycholate and somewhat resistant to ether. It was also found to be resistant to heat, but sensitive to trypsin, chymorrypsin and ledthinase-C Inhibition studies with FUDR and IUDR suggested that the virus contained RNA. Electron microscopy demonstrated a particle morphology similar to that described for reoviruses and blue tongue virus. No serological relationship could be demonstrated with the reoviruses by hemagglutination-inhibition and plaque-reduction tests.

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