ATCC® Number:VR-370™
Classification: Togavirus, Alphavirus
Agent: Middleburg
Strain: AR 749
Original Source: Aedes (O.) caballus, South Africa, 1957
Depositors: Yale Arbovirus Research Unit
Biosafety Level:3
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse, i.c. inoculation or i.p. inoculation suckling mouse; newborn chick (viremia); lamb (viremia); chicken embryo; hamster kidney cells
Incubation : Duration: 2 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : HA produced (Opt. pH 6.2).
References : 33531: Kokernot RH. . S. Afr. J. Med. Sci. 22: 145, 1957.