Isolation and characterization of Sedlec virus, a new bunyavirus from birds.
A pathogenic agent designated AV 172 was isolated from the blood of a Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) out of 767 samples from birds belonging to 35 species and 14 families. The birds (largely wetland passerines) were captured in the reed-belt littoral of Nesyt fishpond in southern Moravia, Czechoslovakia, during the years 1984 to 1987. Virus AV 172 has been found to represent probably a new species (designated virus "Sedlec") of family Bunyaviridae. Sedlec virus is pathogenic to suckling and adult mice when inoculated intracerebrally (i.c.) but not intraperitoneally (i.p.) and its ether-sensitive spherical particles measures 90-100 nm.
Hubálek
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Institute of Systematical and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno.
Juricová
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Halouzka
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Butenko
A M
AM
Kondrasina
N G
NG
Guscina
E A
EA
Morozova
T N
TN
D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D001717:Birds / Q000382:microbiology*; D002043:Bunyaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002044:Bunyaviridae Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D051379:Mice