Scherer W F
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1977 Jan;26(1):167-70. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.167.
Twenty-one strains of Venezuelan encephalitis (VE) virus isolated from three habitats in Trinidad, W.I. during 1960 to 1972, were subtype III (Mucambo) VE virus by plaque-reduction neutralization tests. Like prototype Mucambo virus, each strain killed 8- to 15-week-old mice inoculated intraperitoneally. If the subtype I strain of VE virus that caused a major outbreak in Trinidad during 1943 to 1944 persisted on the island into the 1960s and early 1970s, it did not become the dominant VE virus in these three enzootic foci.
1960年至1972年间，从西印度群岛特立尼达的三个栖息地分离出的21株委内瑞拉脑炎（VE）病毒，通过蚀斑减少中和试验鉴定为III型（穆坎博）VE病毒。与穆坎博病毒原型一样，每株病毒都能杀死经腹腔接种的8至15周龄小鼠。如果在1943年至1944年期间在特立尼达引发大规模疫情的I型VE病毒毒株在该岛持续存在到20世纪60年代和70年代初，它并未成为这三个动物疫源地的主要VE病毒。
