Urucuri (Uru) Strain: Be An 100049

• Main Author: Pinheiro, Francisco de Paula
• Publication Date: 1978
• Other Authors: Rosa, Amélia Paes de Andrade Travassos da
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositório Digital do Instituto Evandro Chagas (Patuá)
• Download full: https://patua.iec.gov.br/handle/iec/356
• topic: Ratos / classificação; Orthobunyavirus / classificação; Orthobunyavirus / isolamento & purificação; Ratos / virologia; Brasil (BR)

Antigenic group: Phlebotomus fever (PHL). Original source: Isolated by Belem Virus Laboratory from whole blood of apparently well young male Proechimys guyannensis 1 collected on 19 April 1966 in Utinga forest, Lat. 1°28'S,Long. 48°27'W. Habitat: Floor of watershed forest. Storage: Frozen at -60°C. Method of isolation in laboratory: Blood inoculated ic into infant mice on 20 April 1966. Validity of isolation: Reisolation not tried and presence of homologous antibody in source animal not tested. However, four more strains isolated from Proechimys guyannensis captured in the same area. Properties of virus: Physical: No data. Chemical: No data. Resistance to chemicals: Sensitive to 1:2 ether; control titer 103.8, after-treatment titer 101.3. Sensitive to 1:1,000 sodium deoxycholate; control titer 105.0, after-treatment titer 101.0. Antigenic: Hemagglutinin detected using infected suckling mouse brains extracted with sucrose-acetone, treated with protamine sulfate, and tested with goose erythrocytes at pH 5.8 through 6.2 and at room temperature. Optimum pH was 6.0.