Pathogenicity of the virus-like particules isolated from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, infected with a flacherie virus
1974 Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 195-199
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1974 Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 195-199
Recently, flacherie virus particles were separated into the FV I and FV II (HIMENO et al., 1973). FV I correspondis to the flacherie virus reported by AYUZAWA (1972). This paper deals with the pathogenicity of FV I and FV II to silkworm larvae.
The results indicated that the larvae inoculated with FV II either per os or intrahemocoelically, showed similar syndrome and mortality to those of the larvae infected with FV I. Moreover, the larvae inoculated with FV II produced only FV II particles. These results suggest that the FV II particle is a virus and the pathogenicity is similar to that of FV I.
