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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 6(5), 1957, pp. 827-834
Copyright © 1957 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Murray Valley Encephalitis in New Guinea

I. Isolation of Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus from the Brain of a Fatal Case of Encephalitis Occurring in a Papuan Native1

E. L. French, S. G. Anderson, A. V. G. Price AND F. A. Rhodes
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Melbourne, and the Public Health Department Laboratory, Port Moresby, Papua and New Guinea

A Papuan native boy aged about 14 years died of acute encephalitis at Port Moresby in May 1956. A virus, isolated from the brain, has been identified as a strain of Murray Valley encephalitis virus and designated MVE-1-56.


1 This work was aided by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, Australia.






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