Growth of Venezuelan encephalitis virus in embryonic cell cultures of wild birds.
Primary embryonic cell cultures made from nine species of wild and domestic birds were infected with Venezuelan encephalitis virus and reproduced each strain to moderately high levels.
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002645:Chickens; D003465:Culex; D009033:Culicidae; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian; D004668:Encephalitis Viruses / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D014687:Venezuela; D014776:Virus Cultivation; D014779:Virus Replication