id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-287620-vuvgi8xx Butler, Noah Murine encephalitis caused by HCoV-OC43, a human coronavirus with broad species specificity, is partly immune-mediated 2006-04-10 .txt text/plain 6665 344 56 HCoV-OC43, harvested from a patient with an upper respiratory tract infection, was originally isolated after passage in human embryonic tracheal organ cultures; this virus caused neurological disease after only one passage in suckling mice and encephalitis within 2-4 passages (McIntosh et al., 1967) (termed HCoV-OC43 NV ). For example, Talbot and co-workers showed, using the mouse-adapted virus after passage in tissue culture cells (termed HCoV-OC43 QUE herein;) that mice infected intranasally with 10 4 -10 5 TCID 50 developed encephalitis if inoculated 8 days but not 21 days postnatally (Jacomy and Talbot, 2003) . HCoV-OC43 QUE was passaged 5-6 times in tissue culture prior to use in mice (personal communication, Dr. Pierre Talbot, INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Quebec) and consequently may be less virulent than virus isolated directly from infected suckling mouse brains. As shown in Fig. 5 , immunocytochemical staining for viral antigen revealed that the tissue culture-adapted virus infected hamster, pig, human, mouse, monkey and cat cells, but not FRT rat epithelium cells. ./cache/cord-287620-vuvgi8xx.txt ./txt/cord-287620-vuvgi8xx.txt