| characterization of ross river viruses isolated from patients with polyarthritis in new caledonia and wallis and futuna islands. | viruses isolated during 1979 and 1980 from patients with polyarthritis in new caledonia and wallis and futuna islands have been found to be more closely related to ross river virus than any other regional alphavirus. on the basis of virulence in suckling mice the majority of these isolates were found to be more closely related to the nb5092 strain of ross river virus than to the prototype t48 strain. | 1984 | 6095694 |
| [arboviral diseases in south-west pacific islands (author's transl)]. | islands of the south-west pacific area belong to the melanesian group, excepted niue, tonga, wallis and futuna which are polynesian. through new guinea, there is a geographic relation to the eastern part of australia, rich of 42 arbovirus types. dengue and ross river fever are the most important arboviral diseases in the region; both affect islanders after introduction of virus by travellers to localities where efficient vectors are present. dengue types 1, 2 and 4 were isolated from man and fro ... | 1981 | 6116150 |
| [laboratory diagnosis of epidemic polyarthritis (ross river virus) in new caledonia]. | during an outbreak of arboviral diseases in the south-west pacific islands, from 1979 to 1980, patients sera examined in new caledonia revealed 43 cases of epidemic polyarthritis due to ross river virus. viral strains were obtained from 16 of these patients. after isolation of the virus in newborn mice, the inoculation of c6/36, ps-ek and vero cells allowed the identification of these strains by hemagglutination inhibition and complement fixation tests. this was the first time that cases of poly ... | 1983 | 6323042 |