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. 1973 Sep 7;181(4103):945-7.
doi: 10.1126/science.181.4103.945.

Isolation of a neurotropic type C virus

J E Officer, N Tecson, J D Estes, E Fontanilla, R W Rongey, M B Gardner

Isolation of a neurotropic type C virus

J E Officer et al. Science. .

Abstract

A neurogenic paralysis of the lower limb can be induced and serially transmitted in mice by a nontransforming type C virus strain that originated in an embryo of a wild mouse. The virus exerted a neurotropic effect on the anterior horn neurons.

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