ATCC? Number:VR-1026?
Classification: Picornavirus, Human Enterovirus
Agent: Coxsackievirus A20
Strain: IH Pool 35
Original Source: Pool of fecal specimens from patients with infectious hepatitis, New York State, 1955
Depositors: NIH/NIAID
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : human amnion cells suckling mouse; HeLa cells (ATCCCCL-2); ; human fetal diploid kidney cells; human diploid embryonic cells
Effect : Yes, in vitro effects: Cytopathic effects in tissue culture
Comments : In secondary HAm cell cultures, 'Plaques' containing rounded or dendritic cells with granular cytoplasm appear on the 5th day and are maximal on the 6th day.
Related Products: antiserum:ATCC VR-1026AS/HOantiserum:ATCC VR-1026AS/MKalso distributed as:ATCC VR-178
References : 32609: Sickles GM, et al. New types of Coxsackie virus, group A. Cytopathogenicity in tissue culture. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 102: 742-743, 1959. PubMed: 14446401