| | | In complement-fixation tests performed in Vellore, non-reactive with hyperimmune mouse sera to Sindbis and chikungunya (Group A arboviruses), dengue (Group B arbovirus), Umbre (Turlock), Chittoor (Bunyamwera), Sathuperi (Simbu), and other as yet unidentified or ungrouped viruses isolated previously in Vellore and believed to be arboviruses. | | In complement-fixation tests carried out in the laboratories of the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, New Haven, non-reactive with grouping hyperimmune mouse ascitic fluids of arbovirus Groups A, B, C, Guama, Bunyamwera, Simbu, California, Anopheles A, Anopheles B, Turlock, Capim, Tacaribe, VSV, Quaranfil, Kaisodi and Qalyub. In addition, hyperimmune mouse ascitic fluid of Thottapalayam was non-reactive when tested with antigens prepared from nearly 150 viruses isolated in different parts of the world. | | Thottapalyam virus shows an antigenic relationship to hantaviruses [4] . | | Pending verification of the relationship, this virus is being placed in the family Bunyaviridae as an ungrouped virus. | | |
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