[isolation of west nile virus in the southern ukraine]. | a virus (strain no. 3266) was isolated from the blood and internal organs of a rook caught in may, 1980, in the territory of the black sea state preserve of the ukrainian academy of sciences (the kherson region). the virus is pathogenic for 1--2-day-old mice by various routes of inoculation and for 3-week-old mice by the intracerebral route; it multiplies in chick embryos, in chick embryo fibroblast cultures without the cytopathic effect, and in continuous l cells and pig embryo kidney cells wit ... | 1982 | 7147903 |