Volume 11, Number 2—February 2005
Research
Novel Flavivirus or New Lineage of West Nile Virus, Central Europe
Tamás Bakonyi*†, Zdenek Hubálek‡, Ivo Rudolf‡, and Norbert Nowotny*§
Table 1
Survival time (days) of suckling mice injected intracranially with Rabensburg virus isolates 97-103 and 99-222
| Suckling mouse brain (SMB) passage no. | Strain 97-103 |
Strain 99-222 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average survival time | Range | Average survival time | Range | |
| SMB0* | 12.1 | 12–13 | 12.2 | 9–15 |
| SMB1 | 8.5 | 7–10 | 11.8 | 11–13 |
| SMB2 | 8.5 | 7–11 | 10.0 | 9–11 |
| SMB3 | 8.1 | 7–9 | 8.7 | 7–10 |
*Represents the original mosquito suspension during virus isolation attempts.
