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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 16(1), 1967, pp. 74-78
Copyright © 1967 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Restan Virus, a New Group C Arbovirus from Trinidad and Surinam*

A. H. Jonkers{dagger}, D. Metselaar{ddagger}, Amelia Homobono Pães de Andrade§ AND E. S. Tikasingh{dagger}

Restan virus is a new serotype of arbovirus group C that has been isolated seven times in Trinidad and Surinam during 1963 and 1964. Three strains were recovered from Culex spp. and four from acutely ill human beings. The new agent is related most closely to Marituba and Murutucu viruses, from which it is distinguishable only in hemagglutination-inhibition test. It circulates to high titer in laboratory-colonized rodents of the species Zygodontomys b. brevicauda and Oryzomys laticeps velutinus. In the laboratory it has been transmitted by Aedes aegypti. Results of serum surveys are reported.


* The studies and observations made in Trinidad were conducted with the support and under the auspices of the Governments of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, British Guiana, and the Eastern Caribbean Territories, the Ministry of Overseas Development of the United Kingdom Government, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Metselaar's work in the Central Public Health Laboratory in Paramaribo was supported by SUNEVO (Stichting Surinaams Nederlands Instituut voor de Volksgezondheid in Suriname) and the Ministry of Health of Surinam. The Belém Virus Laboratory is maintained jointly by the Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública of Brazil and by The Rockefeller Foundation.


{dagger} University of the West Indies, Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory, P.O. Box 164, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, W.I.


{ddagger} Laboratorium voor Medische Microbiologie der Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, Netherlands.


§ Belém Virus Laboratory of the Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, Brazil.






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