TY - JOUR
AU - Chamberlain, R. W.
AB - J. M. VANELLA, R. E. KISSLING, AND R. W. CHAMBERLAIN From the Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, P. O. Box 61, Montgomery, Alabama Some of the viruses of the encephalo­ exclusion of other small animals, is not myocarditis (EMC) group are known to in conformity with most other mosquito­ be pathogenic to man.t! Isolations of borne virus diseases. the virus have been made from the The work to be described was under­ rhesus monkey.' chimpanzee,' mandrill taken to test several possible modes of baboon," cotton rat," hamster," mon­ transmission of encephalomyocarditis goose, and wild-caught mosquitoes of virus among rodents. the genus Mansonia." Certain epidemio­ MATERIALS AND METHODS logical observations have tended to in­ Virus.-The strain of EMC virus used was criminate rats as the reservoir of the that isolated from a mandrill baboon from a virus, and antibodies to this virus group zoological park in Florida.! All tests were made have been found in the serums of wild with third and fourth mouse brain passage ma­ rats collected in Africa and North terial. America, while serums from other ani­ Titration of virus.-Titrations of virus-con­ taining materials were made intracerebrally in 
TI - Transmission Studies with Encephalomyocarditis Virus
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/98.1.98
DA - 1956-01-01
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SP - 98
EP - 102
VL - 98
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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