ATCC? Number:VR-1094?
Classification: Adenoviridae, Mastadenovirus, Human adenovirus D
Agent: Human adenovirus 17 deposited as Adenovirus type 17
Strain: Ch. 22 [V-217-003-014]
Original Source: Presumed from conjunctival scrapings from 1-year-old female, Saudi Arabia, 1955
Depositors: NIH/NIAID
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
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Host Organism : human embryonic kidney cells; HeLa cells (ATCCCCL-2); KB cells (ATCCCCL-17) human embryonic kidney cells; KB cells (ATCCCCL-17); HeLa cells (ATCCCCL-2)
Effect : Yes, in vitro effects: Cytopathic effects in tissue culture
Comments : Agglutinates rat RBC. This strain has been found to produce acute follicular conjunctivitis in human volunteers (Feng, M. et al., Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 8: 501, 1959).
References : 24579: et al., Murray ES. . Am. J. Opthalmol. 43: 32, 1957. 24704: Hierholzer JC, et al. Antigenic relationships among the 47 human adenoviruses determined in reference horse antisera. Arch. Virol. 121: 179-197, 1991. PubMed: 1759904 32356: Ma Y, Mathews MB. Structure, function, and evolution of adenovirus-associated RNA: a phylogenetic approach. J. Virol. 70: 5083-5099, 1996. PubMed: 8764016