ATCC? Number:VR-449?
Classification: Reoviridae, Orbivirus
Agent: Umatilla virus deposited as Minnal virus
Strain: IG 7481
Original Source: Whole triturated Culex vishnui, India, 1956
Depositors: RE Shope
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : suckling mouse, i.c. inoculation or i.p. inoculation suckling mouse, i.c. or i.p. inoculation
Incubation : Duration: 5 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: causes death in host animal
Comments : Non-pathogenic for 3- to 4-week-old mice. Sodium deoxycholate sensitive. Non-pathogenic for 3- to 4-week-old mice. Sodium deoxycholate sensitive.
References : 34114: Dandawate CN, et al. Virus isolations from mosquitoes collected in North Arcot district, Madras state, and Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh between November 1955 and October 1957. Indian J. Med. Res. 57: 1420-1426, 1969. PubMed: 4395257 34117: . Catalogue of arthropod-borne viruses of the world. USPHS Pub. No. 1760Washington, DC: U.S. GPO; 1967.