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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 15(4), 1966, pp. 573-579
Copyright © 1966 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Recovery of Dengue Viruses from Patients during Epidemics in Puerto Rico and East Pakistan

Philip K. Russell*, Edward L. Buescher, Jack M. McCown AND José Ordoñez*
Department of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C., and Department of Microbiology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland

Viruses, closely related if not identical to dengue virus type 3, were recovered from the acute phase bloods of persons with clinical dengue fever in outbreaks in Puerto Rico (1963) and East Pakistan (1964). Because viruses from each epidemic induced little if any overt disease upon inoculation of suckling or weanling mice, the recovery and identification of these viruses were dependent entirely upon cell culture techniques using the challenge virus resistance test. Monolayer cultures of primary African green monkey kidney (GMK) cells, or continuous heteroploid GMK cells (BS-C-1) were found to be more sensitive for detection of dengue viruses than was the diploid early passage BS-C-1 cell. Titrations of newly recovered viruses were regularly and reproducibly made in the former cells. Titers of cell culture propagated dengue viruses were too low to permit demonstration of complement fixing or hemagglutinating antigen, but adequate for performance of neutralization tests to identify newly recovered strains. The techniques ultimately developed for recovery and characterization of dengue viruses in the GMK cell culture system are described.


* Present addresses: Department of Virology, SEATO Medical Research Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand (PKR) and Departmento de Medicina Preventiva, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala, Guatemala (JO). Please address reprint requests to the Department of Virus Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.






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