DESALTING OF VIRUS SUSPENSIONS BY GEL-FILTRATION

Abstract

Gel filtration with Sephadex G 25 allows desalting of virus suspensions instead of the customary dialysis in cellophane membranes. The advantage of this method lies especially in the time saved and consequently in better preservation of the virus even in a small volume of material. Viruses of different molecular size and of different chemical composition, such as the foot and mouth disease virus, the Teschen virus, the virus of Newcastle disease and the pigeon pox virus were tested in different saline solutions. During the quantitative desalting process, no loss of virus was observed in these virus- salt mixtures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0836696

Entities

People

  • Guenther Wittmann
  • Heinz-dietrich Matheka

Organizations

  • United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animal Diseases
  • Chemical Composition
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Export Controls
  • Filtration
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Hemoglobin
  • Materials
  • Mouth Diseases
  • Poxviridae
  • Saline Solution
  • Sodium Compounds
  • United States
  • Viruses
  • West Germany

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Microbial Pathology
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).