TY - JOUR AU - Jonas, Albert M. AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 123, NO.2· FEBRUARY 1971 © 1971 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Isolation and Characterization of a Herpeslike (Hsiung-Kaplow) Virus from Guinea Pigs Pravin N. Bhatt, Dean H. Percy, Joseph L. Craft, and Albert M. Jonas From the Division of Health Science Resources, Section of Laboratory Animal Sciences, and Department of Otolaryngology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Recently, Hsiung and Kaplow reported the iso­ cultures, but not from triturated organs. In addi­ lation of a herpeslike agent from strain 2, but tion, virus was isolated from the lungs and kid­ not from strain 13 or from "Hartley strain," neys of "Hartley strain" guinea pigs, from one guinea pigs [1]. Since strain 2 guinea pigs are commercial source, that were not in contact with highly susceptible to transmissible acute lympho­ the strain 2 or strain 13 animals. blastic leukemia (L [2], it was inferred that This report describes the characteristics of a 2C) there may be a causal relationship between the viral agent that apparently causes a latent infec­ herpeslike agent and the leukemia. tion of guinea pigs. Since guinea pigs are widely In June, 1967, we established TI - Isolation and Characterization of a Herpeslike (Hsiung-Kaplow) Virus from Guinea Pigs JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases DO - 10.1093/infdis/123.2.178 DA - 1971-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/isolation-and-characterization-of-a-herpeslike-hsiung-kaplow-virus-X8CYHFKcln SP - 178 EP - 189 VL - 123 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -