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Variation in Virulence of Coxsackie Virus B3 in the Heart of Mice
Author(s) -
Hashimoto Isao,
Komatsu Toshihiko,
Kohara Teruko
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0385-5600
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1983.tb00592.x
Subject(s) - virulence , biology , virology , variation (astronomy) , virus , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , gene , physics , astrophysics
Histopathological analysis of the heart in adult mice inoculated with Coxsackie virus B3 (CB3) strains revealed that strain SK‐74 isolated from a patient suffering from severe diarrhea and fever produced severe myocarditis but strain T‐70 isolated from a healthy child induced no lesion in the hearts of mice tested, and that intensities of myocardial lesions in mice inoculated with strain PMH were higher than those in mice inoculated with prototype strain Nancy. The results support the conclusion in the preceding paper that strain SK‐74 is virulent but strain T‐70 is avirulent in mice. The results also partially indicated that the virulence of prototype strain Nancy in the heart of mice is enhanced by passages of the strain in the heart of mice. All four strains of CB3 produced lesions in the pancreas although lesions induced by strain T‐70 were less marked than those induced by the remaining three strains.