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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 15(2), 1966, pp. 211-218
Copyright © 1966 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Serologic Survey for Neutralizing Antibodies to Eastern Equine and Western Equine Encephalitis Viruses in Man, Wild Birds and Swine in Southern Mexico during 1961*

W. F. Scherer, C. Campillo Sainz, J. De Mucha Macias, R. Rubio-Brito, T. Miura, R. W. Dickerman, D. W. Warner AND M. Dyer
Departments of Microbiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Instituto Nacional de Virologia de la Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia, Mexico, D. F., and Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota

During 1961, antibodies neutralizing eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus were found in plasmas of man and resident wild birds in southern Mexico at Tlacotalpan, Veracruz on the tropical eastern coast and at Coatetelco, Morelos on the central upland plateau. Antibodies neutralizing western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus were detected in plasmas from man, resident wild birds and swine at Tlacotalpan, but only from migratory birds at Coatetelco. Maximal prevalence rates for these antibodies were 2% in man and 6% in adult birds. No viruses were recovered by inoculation of suckling mice with plasmas from 88 permanently resident and 88 migratory birds at Tlacotalpan; 72 and 61 plasmas were also negative in hamster kidney and chicken embryonic cell cultures respectively. Because most humans were without detectable neutralizing antibody, a major future amplification of EEE or WEE virus activity in these regions could result in encephalitis epidemics.


* These investigations were performed by collaboration among persons from the above institutions, the Pan American Health Organization and the Government of the United States of Mexico, and were supported in part by USPHS training grants nos. 2E-188 and 5-T1-AI-231 from the NIAID, and in part by the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, under sponsorship of the Commission on Viral Infections of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.






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