ATCC® Number:VR-549™
Classification: Bunyaviridae,Orthobunyavirus
Agent: Patois virus
Strain: BT 4971
Original Source: Serum from presumably healthy adult male Sigmodon hispidus, (cotton rat) Panama, 1961
Depositors: Yale Arbovirus Research Unit
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse; hamster kidney cells; Vero cells (ATCCCCL-81)
Incubation : Duration: 2 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : HA produced (Opt. pH 5.75, 22C). Irregular deaths in adult mice i.c.
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