[Interferon production in vitro (by leukocytes) in response to arbovirus infections]

Experiments on cultivation of Semliki Forest virus in suspensions of the blood from immune and intact white mice and rabbits showed that adsorption of virus of phagocytosis by these cells occurred in the process of cultivation. There was a relationship between the rate of virus adsorption and interferon production: upon rapid virus adsorption by the immune cells interferon production by these cells was more intensive early after inoculation of the inducer. The dynamics of Semliki virus adsorption and of interferon production of leukocytes of white mice was close to that determined in cultivation of the virus in rabbit leukocyte suspension.