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. 1973 Oct;26(4):505-7.
doi: 10.1128/am.26.4.505-507.1973.

Enterovirus recovery with vegetable floc

J Konowalchuk, J I Speirs

Enterovirus recovery with vegetable floc

J Konowalchuk et al. Appl Microbiol. 1973 Oct.

Abstract

A lettuce floc was prepared and used for recovering enterovirus from an aqueous suspension. The method is simple, and the adsorption of coxsackievirus B5, echovirus 7, and poliovirus 1 is quantitative. The virus-floc complex may be removed from aqueous suspension by low-speed centrifugation and dissolved at an alkaline pH in a small volume of water; virus is then available for assay on cultured cells. Flocs from some other green vegetables also possess the property of virus adsorption

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