| new minto virus: a new rhabdovirus from ticks in alaska. | three strains of a virus were isolated from haemaphysalis leporis-palustris (packard) ticks removed from snowshoe hares (lepus americanus erxleben) in east central alaska. we suggest that the virus be named new minto for the location in which the ticks were collected. prototype new minto virus is sensitive to the action of sodium deoxycholate and kills suckling mice by the intracerebral but not intraperitoneal route; weaned mice do not die after intracerebral, intraperitoneal, or subcutaneous in ... | 1978 | 638895 |