New Isolates of Pneumonia Virus of Mice (PVM) from Japanese Rat Colonies and their Characterization

Experimental Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 95-104

  Miyata, Hironori ^a   Kishikawa, Masao ^b   Rondo, Hisayoshi ^b   Kai, Chieko ^c   Watanabe, Yoji ^d   Ohsawa, Kazutaka ^d   Sato, Hiroshi ^d  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Laboratory Animal Center for Biomedical Research ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

mouse; PVM; rat; RNA; virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS REACTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; PNEUMOVIRINAE; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RODENT DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; JAPAN; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PNEUMOVIRUS; PNEUMOVIRUS INFECTIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RODENT DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0029286371     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.44.95     Document Type: Article

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