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THE demonstration that a wide range of different arthropod-borne viruses could produce plaques in monolayer cultures of chick embryo cells1 raised the possibility that this technique could be used for the primary isolation of viruses in this group. This point was investigated first by the examination in London of material submitted from Uganda, and later during a visit of one of us to the Virus Research Institute, Entebbe.
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PORTERFIELD, J., WILLIAMS, M. & WOODALL, J. A Plaque Technique for the Primary Isolation of Arthropod-borne Viruses. Nature 188, 252–253 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188252a0
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