| isolation of japanese encephalitis virus from clinical specimens using a continuous mosquito cell line. | during the 1983 japanese encephalitis (je) epidemic in northern thailand, we systematically attempted to isolate je virus (jev) from clinical specimens collected from 49 consecutive je patients at 1 provincial hospital. fresh acute plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) samples and postmortem brain samples were immediately inoculated onto cultured monolayers of aedes pseudoscutellaris (lstm-ap-61) cells which had been shipped to the epidemic site. none of 49 plasma samples yielded virus. none of 3 ... | 1986 | 3021009 |