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Arbovirus Studies in the Ohio-Mississippi Basin, 1964–1967

VI. Mermet: A Simbu-Group Arbovirus^*

C. H. Calisher, R. H. Kokernot, J. F. de Moore, K. R. Boyd, Jack Hayes AND W. A. Chappell

A new arbovirus of the Simbu group was isolated from birds in the United States. Its properties in common with arboviruses are sensitivity to sodium desoxycholate, low pH, and heat labilities, and its possession of ribonucleic acid. Antigenic comparisons with various members of the Simbu group of arboviruses showed this virus to be closely related to, but distinguishable from, Ingwavuma and Manzanilla viruses. The name Mermet virus is proposed after a lake in the region from which the virus was first isolated.

^* This investigation was supported in part by U. S. Public Health Service Grant CC 00037 from the National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia.

National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.

Center for Zoonoses Research, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.

Formerly at the National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Present address: Université de Lovanium, République Démocratique du Congo, Africa.