Volume 8, Number 6—June 2002
Research
Two New Rhabdoviruses (Rhabdoviridae) Isolated from Birds During Surveillance for Arboviral Encephalitis, Northeastern United States
Amelia P.A. Travassos da Rosa*, Thomas N. Mather†, Tsutomu Takeda†, Chris A. Whitehouse†, Robert E. Shope*, Vsevolod L. Popov*, Hilda Guzman*, Lark L. Coffey*, Tais P. Araujo*, and Robert B. Tesh*
Table 1
Cross-reaction of CT-114 and RI-166 viruses with other selected rhabdoviruses by complement fixation test
| Antigen | Hyperimmune ascitic fluid |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | New Minto | Sawgrass | Flanders | CT-114 | RI-166 | |
| Connecticut | 256/≥64a | 0 | 128/32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Minto | 0 | 256/≥64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sawgrass | 16/32 | 16/32 | 1,024/64 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RI 907-36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ≥256/≥32 | 0 | 0 |
| CT-114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 256/64 | 0 |
| RI-166b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128/≥8 |
| RI-175 b |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
128/≥8 |
| aReciprocal of ascitic fluid titer/reciprocal of antigen titer. bRI-166 and RI 175 antigens were fluids from infected cell cultures. | ||||||
