title: Correlation between growth potential of mouse hepatitis viruses in macrophages and their virulence for mice.
abstract: Correlation between the virulence of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) for mice and the growth potential of the virus in peritoneal adherent cells was observed for highly virulent MHV-2 and avirulent MHV-1, JHM, and MHV-S strains. However, this phenomenon was not observed in strain MHV-3, which multiplied to almost the same degree in peritoneal adherent cells from susceptible and resistant mouse strains.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D006524:Hepatitis, Viral, Animal / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D006517:Murine hepatitis virus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity*