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  Mount Elgon bat   MEBV

Probably not Arbovirus

No

2

Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.
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Ungrouped
Section V - Antigenic Relationship and Lack of Relationship to Other Viruses
 
A sucrose acetone antigen (homologous titer 80/160) failed to react in complement-fixation tests with hyperimmune antisera to the following arboviruses known to occur in Africa:
 


Group A: chikungunya, Semliki Forest, Sindbis, Middelburg.
Group B: West Nile, Uganda S.
Bunyamwera Group: Bunyamwera, Germiston, Ilesha, Olifantsvlei and Shokwe.
Bwamba Group: Bwamba, Pongola.
Quaranfil Group: Quaranfil, Chenuda.
Simbu Group: Simbu, Ingwavuma, Yaba 1, Sango.
Nyando Group: Nyando.
California Group: Lumbo.
African Horse Sickness: African horse sickness (VH).
Bluetongue: bluetongue (Petrusville).
CHF-Congo: Congo.
Kemerovo: Wad Medani.
Mossuril: Mossuril.
Nairobi Sheep Disease: Nairobi sheep disease.
Nyamanini: Nyamanini.
Phlebotomus Fever: Arumowot.
Rabies Serogroup: Lagos bat, Obodhiang (Ar 1275-64).
Tete: Matruh.
Thogoto: Thogoto.
Ungrouped: AMP 5438, AR 1169-64, Eretmapodites 147, Tataguine, Lebombo, Orungo, Tanga, Okola, Witwatersrand.
Negative results also with hyperimmune sera to Junin, Tacaribe and Kern Canyon viruses. No reaction with herpes simplex immune serum. The virus was not neutralized by rabies antiserum.
Hyperimmune BP846 antiserum failed to inhibit hemagglutinating antigens for the following arboviruses known to occur in Africa:
 


Group A: chikungunya, Middelburg, Ndumu, o'nyong-nyong, Semliki Forest, Sindbis.
Group B: Bukalasa bat, Dakar bat, dengue 1, Entebbe bat, Banzi, Ntaya, Spondweni, Uganda S, Wesselsbron, West Nile, yellow fever, Zika.
Bunyamwera Group: Bunyamwera.
Simbu Group: Ingwavuma.
No cross-reactivity by CF, NT and immunodiffusion tests with any of the known rhabdoviruses of animals [2] .
Mount Elgon bat virus was placed in the Vesicular Stomatitis antigenic group through its relationship with Klamath virus [3] .
 
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