ATCC® Number:VR-456™
Classification: Rhabdovirus
Agent: Mossuril
Strain: SA Ar 1995
Original Source: Culex (C.) sitiens adult female, South Africa, 1959
Depositors: Yale Arbovirus Research Unit
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse, i.c. inoculation suckling mouse, i .c. inoculation
Incubation : Duration: 3 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : No HA produced.
References : 33600: Kokernot RH, et al. Isolation of viruses from mosquitoes collected at Lumbo, Mozambique. II. Mossuril virus, a new virus isolated from the Culex (culex) sitiens Wiedemann group. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 11: 683-684, 1962. PubMed: 14034312