ATCC® Number:VR-374™
Classification: Togavirus, Alphavirus
Agent: Una
Strain: Be Ar 13136
Original Source: Psorophora ferox, (mosquitoes), Belem, Brazil, 1959
Depositors: Yale Arbovirus Research Unit
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse, i.c. inoculation or i.p. inoculation suckling mouse; BHK-21(C-13) cells (ATCCCCL-10); chicken embryo in tissue culture
Incubation : Duration: 2 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : HA produced (Opt. pH 6.2). Immunologically related to Semliki-Mayaro complex.
References : 33530: Causey OR, et al. Aura and Una, two new group A arthropod-borne viruses. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 12: 777-781, 1963. PubMed: 14070772