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  Murray Valley encephalitis   MVEV

Arbovirus

No

3

Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.
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Section IV - Virus Properties
Physicochemical
RNA
 



(S)





7.8% nucleic acid; 11% lipid (4); 10% MB virus: 7 dex to 2.5 dex, 20 min, 50C (5); in 10% rabbit serum inact. at 56C for 15 min.(3)




(S)


(S)

Stability of Infectivity (effects)


2:1

3.6 dex

7.0 dex

2:1

1.8 dex

7.0 dex

0.1%

2.8 dex

6.9 dex

Butanol 2:1: 7.6 to 0 dex; Phospholipase A 10 mcg/ml: 7.0 to 2.3 dex (6)

Virion Morphology


20-50 nm

nm

nm

Filtration (3); electron microscopy 25-35 nm (4)



Morphogenesis






Hemagglutination

Yes

SMB susp. as crude hemagglutinin

Goose


6.5-6.75


4dC

* Clinically indistinguishable from Austrailan X disease, JBE, SLE, or EEE and WEE in humans (2).

NT, CF, HI

* Clinically indistinguishable from Austrailan X disease, JBE, SLE, or EEE and WEE in humans (2).
 
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