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PARASITOLOGY<br />

Incidental to the rodent and bird recapture programmes, blood smears were made<br />

at the time of bleeding for virus and serology, and a number of paras i tes ~Jere found<br />

in these (Table 39)0<br />

!~o~p~~<br />

Vírus stocks for yellow fever (H 111<br />

MOUSENEUTRA LIZAT ION TESTING<br />

Ilheus (H 7445), SLE (AR 23379) and<br />

Bussuquara (AN 4116) were obtained by the ic inocu1ation of 3-day-o1d mice with 10%<br />

suspensions of mouse brain in bovalbumin, and the collection of the serum or brain<br />

at 96 hours after infection for H 111, or 72 hours for the other viroses.<br />

In an effort to interpret the specificity and sensitivity or ti".e N test using<br />

serum vírus íc, and brain vírus íp, wíth the 4 group B agents known in Erazil, the<br />

follO\fing 13 seTa were selected for testing in tl1e 1:8 dilution: seTa 1 tm-ough 4<br />

are hyperimmune mouse ascitic fluids for yellow fever, Ilheus, SLE, and Bussuquaraj<br />

sera 5 through 1 are believed to be yellow rever immune either by history or HI<br />

pattern, including a human with a reliablc history af previaus 17-D vaccinatian, a<br />

oi sera of monkeys PR 319 and PR 322 shot during Janua~ in Utinga forest, and<br />

monkey PR 316 from the same forest; sera 8 and 9 fram humans of Gameta believed to be<br />

Ilheus imzmme by the HI pattem; plasma and senlJll 10 and 11 believed to be SLE ilnmune<br />

repres en ting pooled Q~ragypa (black vul ture ) plasmas AV 6306 and AV 6310, and a serum<br />

fram a human resident af Cameta with SLE RI patternj and sera 12 and 13 fram fFae~himya

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