ATCC® Number:VR-679™
Classification: Nodaviridae, Alphanodavirus
Agent: Nodamura virus
Strain: Mag 115
Original Source: Whole mosquito suspension (Culex tritaeniorhynchus)
Depositors: WF Scherer
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse
Incubation : Duration: 5 days
Effect : Causes limb paralysis in newborn and suckling mice.
Store at : -70 C or colder
Comments : Originally classified as a BSL-3 organism on the basis of insufficient experience to evaluate risk to humans, this virus was reclassified as BSL-2 in the 2007 revision of the BMBL. [16172602]