Study on the Biological Properties of Isolates of Chikungunya Virus in Yunnan Province, China
Abstract: This paper reported the research results for biological properties of six strains of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) isolated from bats, mosquitoes and patients in Yunnan, China, and Ross strain of CHIKV isolated from Africa. These virus strains all could cause illness and death regularly in two to four-daysage sucking mice, produced evident CPE in the C6/36, BHK21, Vero and primary hamster kidney cells. These virus strains agglutinated red blood cells of dove, goose, chicken, duckling, sheep and human type O at ...