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Differentiation of smallpox and camelpox viruses in cultures of human and monkey cells
The Journal of Hygiene
|April 1, 1974
Abstract:
The cytopathic effect of smallpox and camelpox viruses has been compared in cell cultures derived from human and monkey tissues. The two viruses could easily be distinguished in HeLa, GMK-AH1, BSC-1 and WISH cells, camelpox producing multinucleate giant cells and smallpox producing rounding up of individual cells. In other cells (LLC-MK2, HEK and 2RhK) the differences were not so marked, and in some (VERO, HEL, K and HuTh) no differences were seen.

