Abstract
Nariva virus induced syncytium formation in BHK-21 and Vero cultures. Such infected cultures showed positive hemadsorption for guinea pig red blood cells (RBC). A hemagglutinin for guinea pig RBC was extracted from infected Vero cells by sonication. The hemagglutinin did not act on 1-day chick or goose RBC, and it showed an enhancement in titer upon treatment with Tween-ether. The hemagglutination reaction was highly temperature-dependent, with optimal titers being obtained at 4° and no activity manifested at 37°. Serological studies by hemagglutination-inhibition and complement-fixation indicated no antigenic relation to the better known myxoviruses or to a number of other viruses. The nucleic acid component of Nariva virus is probably RNA.
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