ATCC® Number:VR-1045™
Classification: Picornaviridae, Enterovirus, Human enterovirus B
Agent: Human echovirus 6 deposited as Echovirus 6'
Strain: D-1 (Cox)
Original Source: Presumed form rectal swab from infant with diarrhea, Ohio, 1955
Depositors: NIH/NIAID
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : monkey kidney cells monkey kidney; human diploid embryonic cells
Effect : Yes, in vitro effects: Cytopathic effects in tissue culture
Comments : Antigenically related to Echovirus type 6. Agglutinates human type O RBC.
References : 32619: Ramos-Alvarez M. Cytopathogenic enteric viruses associated with undifferentiated diarrheal syndromes in early childhood. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 67: 326-331, 1957. PubMed: 13411970 32620: Ramos-Alvarez M, Sabin AB. Enteropathogenic viruses and bacteria; role in summer diarrheal diseases of infancy and early childhood. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 167: 147-156, 1958. PubMed: 13538681