ATCC® Number:VR-561™
Classification: Picornavirus, Human Enterovirus
Agent: Enterovirus type 68
Strain: Fermon
Original Source: Isolated from a nasal-pharyngeal swab of a hospitalized 10-month-old female with pneumonia, California, 1962
Depositors: EH Lennette
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : primary monkey kidney cells monkey kidney; Human fetal diploid cells; adaptable to human continuous cell lines
Incubation : Duration: 2-4 days
Effect : Yes, in vitro effects: Lytic-type cellular degeneration
Comments : Preferential agglutination of GP erythrocytes at 4C.
Related Products: also distributed as:ATCC VR-1076