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A group of viruses isolated from naturally infected mosquitoes collected in the Murray Valley area of Victoria and New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. L. French  and
W. C. Reeves
E. L. French
Affiliation:
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Melbourne, and the George Williams Hooper Foundation of Medical Research and the School of Public Health, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, California
W. C. Reeves
Affiliation:
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Melbourne, and the George Williams Hooper Foundation of Medical Research and the School of Public Health, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, California
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By the inoculation of suspensions of mosquitoes on the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos, seven pock-producing viruses have been isolated. The mosquitoes were collected in a small area of the Murray Valley situated in the north-western corner of Victoria and southern New South Wales. Six of the viruses were isolated from pools of C. fatigans and one from a pool of C. annulirostris. Five of the viruses were found to be members of the bird pox group and related to fowl-pox virus. Two of the viruses differed in the type of pock they produced on the chorio-allantoic membrane and appeared to be serologically unrelated to the other five.

The interest and criticism of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, F.R.S., throughout the conduct of this work is gratefully acknowledged.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , December 1954 , pp. 551 - 562
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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