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Virus Name: Taggert

Abbreviation: TAGV

Status
Possible Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
2

SALS Basis
Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.

Other Information

Antigenic Group
Sakhalin

Section V - Antigenic Relationship and Lack of Relationship to Other Viruses



1.	Initial studies at QIMR, Brisbane detected no relationship to 36 viruses isolated in Australia and New Guinea.
2.	Studies by Dr. Andrew J. Main Jr., at Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A., showed antigenic relationship to members of the Sakhalin group, but not to some 200 other arboviruses. Cross-complement fixation and neutralization tests with members of the Sakhalin group showed:

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