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  Punta Toro   PTV

Probable Arbovirus

No

2

Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.
Other Information
 

Phlebotomus Fever
Section IV - Virus Properties
Physicochemical
RNA, Single Strand
 

3


(S)




2 or 3

MW: 65 x 103, 50 x 103 and 23 x 103 daltons (2)




(S)


(S)

Stability of Infectivity (effects)








1:500

2.0 dex

6.4 dex


Virion Morphology

Spherical


100 nmnm

85-115 nmnm

Electron microscopy (3)

Surface projections (5-10 nm in size) anchored in a lipid bilayer


Morphogenesis

Cytoplasm (3)

Budding into membranous cisternae (3)

Cisternae of golgi and reticulum membranes (3)



Hemagglutination

Yes

SMB ext. by sucrose-acetone + sonication

Various

6.0-6.8

6.0 (4)


Not dependent

Treatment of erythrocytes with trysin enhances agglutination (4)

HI, CF, NT

Treatment of erythrocytes with trysin enhances agglutination (4)
 
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