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A.S.L.
- above sea level
AA
- Aedes albopictus cell culture
ACAV
- American Committee on Arthropod-borne Viruses
ad
- adult
AF
- ascitic fluid
ag
- antigen
AGD
- agar gel diffusion
AGDP
- agar gel diffusion and precipitation
AHRC
- Arctic Health Research Center
AL
- Alabama
al. c.
- allantoic cavity
am. s.
- amniotic sac
An
- animal
APEG
- Area de Pesquisas Ecologicas do Guama
AR
- Argentina
Ar
- arthropod
ara-C
- Cytosine arabinoside
AS
- Australia
AST
- Average survival time
AZ
- Arizona
BAPS
- bovine albumin in phosphate-buffered saline
Be
- Belem, Brazil
BUDR
- 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine
BUMED
- Bureau of Medicine
C
- Centigrade
CA
- California
CAC
- chorioallantoic cavity
CAF
- chorioallantoic fluid
CAM
- chorioallantoic membrane
Cay
- Cayenne, French Guiana
CDC
- Centers for Disease Control (previously Communicable Disease Center), USA
CE
- chick embryo
CEC
- chick embryo cell cultures
CF
- complement-fixation
(CL)
- cell line
CNS
- central nervous system
CO
- Colorado
CPE
- cytopathic effect
CSF
- cerebrospinal fluid
CSIRO
- The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
CT
- Connecticut
CZ
- Czechoslovakia
Dak
- Dakar, Senegal
DE
- Duck embryo
dex
- order of magnitude to base 10
ds
- double-stranded
DVBVD
- Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases
E.
- east
EAVRI
- East African Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
Eg
- Egypt
EID50
- egg infective dose, 50% endpoint
ELISA
- enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
EM
- electron mycroscopy
EMC
- encephalomyocarditis (virus)
ERC
- Epidemiology Research Center, Tampa, Florida
FL
- Florida
FSESP
- Fundacao Servico Especial de Saude Publica
GA
- Georgia
GE
- goose embryo
GP
- guinea pig
H
- human being
HA
- hemagglutinin/hemagglutination
HB
- hamster brain
HFRS
- hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
HI
- hemagglutination-inhibition
HIAF
- hyperimmune ascitic fluid
Ho
- homologous
hr
- hour
Ht
- heterologous
I
- Iran
IA
- Iowa
IAN
- Instituto Agronomico do Norte
Ib
- Ibadan, Nigeria
ic
- intracerebral
ICLD50
- intracerebral lethal dose, 50% endpoint
IEC
- Instituto Evandro Chagas
IF
- immunofluorescence
IFA
- immunofluorescent assay
IG
- India
IL
- Illinois
im
- intramuscular
IMS
- immune mouse serum
IN
- Indiana
in
- intranasal
ip
- intraperitoneal
IPEAN
- Instituto de Pesquisas e Experimentacao Agropecuarias do Norte
IUDR
- 5-iodo-2-deoxyuridine
iv
- intravenous
JCSMR
- John Curtin School for Medical Research
JEVRU
- Japanese Encephalitis Vector Research Unit
juv
- juvenile
kg
- kilogram(s)
km
- kilometer(s)
L.I.
- Long Island
LD50
- lethal dose, 50% endpoint
LEIV
- Laboratory for Ecology, Institute of Virology
LNI
- log neutralization index
(LV)
- lower vertebrates
(M)
- man
MA
- Massachusetts
Mal
- Malaysia
MARU
- Middle America Research Unit, Panama
MB
- mouse brain
MD
- Maryland
MGL
- Medical General Laboratory, Japan
MI
- metabolic inhibition
MIAF
- mouse immune ascitic fluid
min
- minute(s)
MN
- Minnesota
MO
- Missouri
mo
- month(s)
MP
- mosquito pool
MT
- Montana
MW
- molecular weight(s)
N.
- north
N. S. W.
- New South Wales
N.Y.
- New York
NAMRU
- Naval Medical Research Unit
nb
- newborn
ND
- not done
NE
- northeast
nh
- newly hatched
NIAID
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
NIH
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
NJ
- New Jersey
nm
- nanometers
NNW
- north northwest
NT
- neutralization test
NV
- Nevada
NW
- northwest
OH
- Ohio
P
- passage
Pan
- Panama
(PC)
- primary culture
PEG
- polethylene glycol
PFU
- plaque-forming unit
pi
- post infection
PRNT
- plaque-reduction neutralization test
QIMR
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
(R)
- reported
R.H.
- relative humidity
R.P.
- Republic of Panama
RBC
- red blood cells
RFVL
- Rockefeller Foundation Virus Laboratory, New York, New York
RML
- Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana
RNP
- ribonucleoprotein
RT
- room temperature
S
- Svedberg units; expresses sedimentation coefficient
(S)
- significant
S.
- south
SA
- South Africa
SALS
- Subcommittee on Arbovirus Laboratory Safety
sc
- subcutaneous
SDC
- sodium deoxycholate
SE
- southeast
SEAS
- Subcommittee on Evaluation of Arthropod-Borne Status
sg
- salivary glands
SH
- suckling hamster(s)
SHB
- suckling hamster brain
SIRACA
- Subcommittee on Interrelationships Among Catalogued Arboviruses
SM
- suckling mouse
SMB
- suckling mouse brain
SMNT
- suckling mouse neutralizatin test
SSR
- Soviet Socialist Republic
Sud
- Sudan
SW
- southwest
T
- tick
TC
- tissue culture
TCD50
- tissue culture dose, 50% endpoint
TCID50
- tissue culture infective dose, 50% endpoint
TOT
- transovarial transmission
TRVL
- Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory, Port of Spain, Trinidad
U.S.I.S.
- United States Information Service
UAR
- United Arab Republic
UC ICMR
- University of California International Center for Medical Research, San Francisco, California
UG
- Uganda
USA
- United States of America
USSR
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UVL
- ultraviolet light
V
- Vero
VAD
- virus adjusting diluent
VRC
- Virus Research Centre, Poona, India
W.
- west
WI
- Wisconsin
wk
- week(s)
wn
- weanling
YARU
- Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, New Haven, Connecticut
yg
- young
ys
- yolk sac
