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THE agar-gel precipitin technique has been used to differentiate members of the tick-borne encephalitis virus complex of group B arboviruses1. This report describes the application of this technique in the rapid typing of dengue virus types 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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Clarke, D. H., in Symposium on Biology of Virus of the Tick-borne Encephalitis Complex, edit. by Libikova, H., 67 (Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, 1962).
Lim, K. A., Chan, Y. C., Phoon, W. O., and Hanam, E., Bull Wld. Hlth. Org., 30, 227 (1964).
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CHAN, Y. Rapid Typing of Dengue Viruses by the Micro-precipitin Agar-gel Diffusion Technique. Nature 206, 116–117 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206116a0
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