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Different-sized Infective Particles of Rift Valley Fever Virus

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IN a recent communication, Polson1 indicated that the small animal viruses fall into definite weight-groups as calculated from their sedimentation constants, using the usual assumptions regarding density and particle shape. The particle weights are multiples of 1, 4, 16 and 64 of a basic unit, 12 mµ in diameter. Soluble antigen which itself is non-infective has been recovered from tissues infected with a variety of virus. It is of particular interest that those soluble antigens which have been measured are all approximately 12 mµ in diameter (influenza2, rabies3 and African horsesickness virus4).

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  1. South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and the University of Cape Town Virus Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town,

    W. DU T. NAUDÉ, T. MADSEN & A. POLSON

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NAUDÉ, W., MADSEN, T. & POLSON, A. Different-sized Infective Particles of Rift Valley Fever Virus. Nature 173, 1051–1052 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1731051a0

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