Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T09:07:33.629Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Experiments with the Cyprus strain of blue-tongue virus: multiplication in the central nervous system of mice and complement fixation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

M. van den Ende ,
Anne Linder  and
V. R. Kaschula
M. van den Ende
Affiliation:
The C.S.I.R. and U.C.T. Virus Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town; and the Veterinary Research Laboratories, Onderstepoort
Anne Linder
Affiliation:
The C.S.I.R. and U.C.T. Virus Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town; and the Veterinary Research Laboratories, Onderstepoort
V. R. Kaschula
Affiliation:
The C.S.I.R. and U.C.T. Virus Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town; and the Veterinary Research Laboratories, Onderstepoort
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The multiplication rate of blue-tongue virus in suckling and adult mouse brains has been determined. The first cycle of virus multiplication appears to take 8–12 hr. both in fully susceptible sucklings and in adults which suffer an inapparent infection with this virus.

Antigens suitable for complement-fixation tests have been made from suckling mouse brains and from eggs infected with blue-tongue virus.

A potent immune serum has been obtained from mice immunized by repeated intraperitoneal injections of blue-tongue virus in suckling mouse brain.

Attempts, with negative results, have been made to demonstrate interference with virus multiplication by virus from eggs incubated at 38·5° C. and by virus from adult mouse brains.

We are grateful to Dr R. Alexander for his helpful and critical interest in this work and to Mr G. S. Turner and Dr G. Selzer for their able and willing assistance.

The Virus Research Unit is financed by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and by grants from the Nkana-Kitwe and Chingola Poliomyelitis Research Funds.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 1954 , pp. 155 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

References

REFERENCES

Alexander, R. A., Haig, D. A. & Adelaar, T. F. (1947). Onderstepoort J. vet. Sci. 21, 231.Google Scholar
Alexander, R. A. (1947). Onderstepoort J. vet. Sci. 22, 7.Google Scholar
Cairns, H. J. F. (1951). Brit. J. exp. Path. 32, 110.Google Scholar
Casals, J. (1949). Proc. Soc. exp. Biol., N.Y., 70, 339.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Casals, J. & Olitsky, P. K. (1950). Proc. Soc. exp. Biol., N.Y., 75, 315.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kaschula, V. R. (1953). In the Press.Google Scholar
Reed, L. J. & Muench, H. (1938). Amer. J. Hyg. 27, 493.Google Scholar