ATCC® Number:VR-1076™
Classification: Picornavirus, Human Enterovirus
Agent: Enterovirus type 68
Strain: Fermon [V-067-002-020]
Original Source: Nasal-phoryngeal swab of a hospitalized 10 mo. old female with pneumonia, California, 1962
Depositors: NIH/NIAID
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : primary monkey kidney cells monkey kidney; human fetal diploid kidney cells; human embryonic lung fibroblasts; adaptable to H continuous cell lines
Effect : Yes, in vitro effects: Cytopathic effects in tissue culture
Comments : Preferential agglutination of GP RBC at 4C.
Related Products: antiserum:ATCC VR-1076AS/HOalso distributed as:ATCC VR-561
References : 32656: Schieble JH, et al. A probable new human picornavirus associated with respiratory diseases. Am. J. Epidemiol. 85: 297-310, 1967. PubMed: 4960233