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Antibodies, Viral , Colitis, Ulcerative/microbiology , Crohn Disease/microbiology , Cytomegalovirus/immunology , Antibody Formation , Biopsy , Colitis, Ulcerative/immunology , Complement Fixation Tests , Corticosterone/adverse effects , Crohn Disease/immunology , Culture Techniques , Cytomegalovirus/isolation & purification , Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral , Female , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Humans , Male , Microscopy, Electron , Virus CultivationSubject(s)
Encephalitis/immunology , Herpes Simplex/immunology , Hodgkin Disease/complications , Immunosuppression Therapy/adverse effects , Adult , Autopsy , Biopsy , Cytarabine/therapeutic use , Encephalitis/drug therapy , Encephalitis/etiology , Encephalitis/pathology , Frontal Lobe/pathology , Herpes Simplex/drug therapy , Herpes Simplex/etiology , Humans , Male , Parietal Lobe/pathologySubject(s)
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Antibodies/analysis , Brain/microbiology , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Humans , Infant , Lymph Nodes/microbiology , Male , Measles/complications , Measles virus/isolation & purification , Registries , Sex Factors , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/etiology , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/physiopathology , Time Factors , United StatesSubject(s)
Central Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Virus Diseases/complications , Aleutian Mink Disease , Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/etiology , Animals , Brain Diseases/veterinary , Central Nervous System Diseases/veterinary , Chronic Disease , Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/etiology , Dementia/etiology , Enterovirus B, Human/isolation & purification , Humans , Kuru/etiology , Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal/etiology , Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis/veterinary , Measles virus/isolation & purification , Mink , Multiple Sclerosis/etiology , Papillomaviridae/isolation & purification , Parkinson Disease/etiology , Polyomaviridae , Polyradiculopathy/etiology , Scrapie , Sheep , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/etiology , Virus Diseases/veterinaryABSTRACT
Measles virus was isolated in mixed cultures of lymph node cells and HeLa cells. The agent was isolated by cocultivation from biopsy specimens of two of five patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The virus was identified by hemagglutination-inhibition, immunofluorescent, and neutralization tests. Biopsies from controls did not show evidence of measles virus.
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Lymph Nodes/microbiology , Measles virus/isolation & purification , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/microbiology , Adolescent , Biopsy , Child , Female , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , HeLa Cells , Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests , Humans , Male , Neutralization Tests , Virus CultivationSubject(s)
Antibodies/analysis , Measles virus , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/cerebrospinal fluid , Complement Fixation Tests , Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests , Humans , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/blood , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/diagnosis , Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/immunologySubject(s)
Brain Chemistry , Brain/microbiology , Central Nervous System Diseases , Nucleoproteins/analysis , Viruses/isolation & purification , Adult , Aged , Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/etiology , Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/microbiology , Cytoplasm/analysis , Extracellular Space/analysis , Female , Humans , Male , Microscopy, ElectronSubject(s)
Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder/microbiology , Measles virus/immunology , Amnion/cytology , Animals , Chick Embryo , Complement Fixation Tests , Culture Techniques , Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral , Dogs , Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests , Hemagglutination Tests , Humans , Kidney/cytology , Measles virus/isolation & purificationSubject(s)
Brain/microbiology , Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder/microbiology , Measles virus/isolation & purification , Animals , Child , Culture Techniques , Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Haplorhini , HeLa Cells , Hemadsorption Inhibition Tests , Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests , Hemagglutination, Viral , Humans , Measles virus/immunologyABSTRACT
A series of 19 different primary and serial tissue cultures were investigated for their sensitivity to virulent or attenuated rubella virus (RV). Primary guinea pig tissues, a serial passage of baby hamster kidney, and primary human amnion were comparable to African green monkey kidney tissue cultures in their sensitivity. In general, primary human tissues were relatively insusceptible to the Gilchrist strain of RV. RV interfered with the growth of vesicular stomatitis virus. Based on this finding, it was possible to develop an assay method in guinea pig tissue cultures by using VSV as the challenge virus. This system appeared to be comparable in sensitivity to the use of primary monkey kidney tissue cultures for the detection of small amounts of RV and offers the advantages of economy, rapidity, and safety.