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Isolation of a Bedsonial Agent in Vellore, South India, from the Blood of Grey Herons

Ruth M. Myers^*, Donald E. Carey, Rachel Reuben, Paul Arnstein AND Samuel George^*

A bedsonial agent was isolated from pooled venous blood of four healthy nestling Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) trapped near Vellore, South India, in January 1964. Provisional identification, based on the finding of typical inclusion bodies in brain-tissue smears from infected mice, was confirmed in complement-fixation tests with known bedsonial reagents. The agent was highly virulent for parakeets but nonpathogenic for 3-week-old mice inoculated intraperitoneally. It produced typical bedsonial colonies in yolk sacs of chick embryos and in tissue culture.

^* Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, South India.

Rockefeller Foundation staff member, on assignment to the Virus Research Centre, Poona, India. The Virus Research Centre is jointly maintained by the Indian Council of Medical Research and The Rockefeller Foundation; it also receives a grant (No. 3X4307) of PL 480 funds from the National Institutes of Health, USPHS, through the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

Virus Research Centre, Poona.

National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia; on assignment to the George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.