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Virus Name:
Tamiami
Abbreviation:
TAMV
Status
Not Arbovirus
Select Agent
No
SALS Level
2
SALS Basis
Level 2 arenaviruses are not known to cause serious acute disease in man and are not acutely pathogenic for laboratory animals, including primates. Survey experience is sufficient to conclude that laboratory aerosol infection does not occur in the course of routine work with cell cultures and animals not subject to chronic infection. In view of reported high frequency of laboratory aerosol infection that occurred in workers manipulating high concentrations of Pichinde virus, it is strongly recommended that work with high concentrations of Level 2 arenaviruses be done at Level 3.
Other Information
Antigenic Group
Tacaribe
Section X - Histopathology
Character of lesions (specify host)
Swiss mice: encephalomyelitis; degeneration of isolated neurons, increase in mononuclear cells throughout the brain, infiltrating the meninges to a minor degree and surrounding the blood vessels. Scattered foci of necrosis.
Inclusion Bodies
Lower Vertabrates
Intranuclear
Organs/Tissues Affected
Brain (LV), spinal cord (LV)
Category of tropism
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