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Isolation of a reovirus from the snake,Python regius

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A reovirus isolated from a moribund snake was not neutralized by antisera against mammalian serotypes, did not agglutinate human 0 erythrocytes, and produced fusion of IgH 2 cells. The genome contained 10 segments of dsRNA.

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  1. Institute of Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    W. Ahne & I. Thomsen

  2. Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    J. Winton

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Ahne, W., Thomsen, I. & Winton, J. Isolation of a reovirus from the snake,Python regius . Archives of Virology 94, 135–139 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313731

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