ATCC® Number:VR-461™
Classification: Reoviridae, Orbivirus
Agent: Lebombo
Strain: AR 136
Original Source: Adult female Aedes circumluteolus, South Africa, 1956
Depositors: RE Shope
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : suckling mouse
Incubation : Duration: 4 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : 64-70 nm in size by EM. Envelope absent. Spherical in shape. Not sensitive to ether. Relatively resistant to sodium deoxycholate, labile at pH 3.0. No HA produced in goose RBC. 64-70 nm in size by EM. Envelope absent. Spherical in shape. Not sensitive to ether. Relatively resistant to sodium deoxycholate, labile at pH 3.0. No HA produced in goose RBC.