FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON INFECTIONS OF GUINEA-PIGS WITH VENEZUELAN ENCEPHALITIS-VIRUS STRAINS

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作者
SCHERER, WF [1 ]
CHIN, J [1 ]
ORDONEZ, JV [1 ]
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[1] UNIV SAN CARLOS,SCH MED,AREA BIOL SCI,GUATEMALA CITY,GUATEMALA
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10.4269/ajtmh.1979.28.725
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R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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1004 ; 120402 ;
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Guinea pigs from a Guatemalan colony died after subcutaneous inoculation of moderately small doses of equine-benign strains of Venezuelan encephalitis (VE) virus of hemagglutination-inhibition subtype I-E from enzootic habitats in Mexico and Guatemala. Thus these guinea pigs were unlike English short hair and inbred 13 guinea pigs, which usually survive infections with equine-benign VE strains of subtype I-E. We therefore caution others that not all strains of guinea pigs can be used to evaluate the potential equine virulence of VE viruses.
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