TABLE 1.
Results for 979 specimens tested for enteroviruses by the conventional cell culture technique in tubes according to cell type and rapid cell culture techniquea
| Virus and type | No. of specimens positive
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional culture technique
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Rapid cell culture technique for enterovirus | |||
| t-MK cells | Diploid cells | Total | ||
| Poliovirusb | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| CAV 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| CAV 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| CBV 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| CBV 3 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 10 |
| CBV 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| EV 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| EV 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| EV 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| EV 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| EV 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| EV 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| EV 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| EV 20 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| EV 21 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| EV 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| EV 25 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| EV 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| EV 29 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| EV 30 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ent 71 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Ent NT | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Total | 68 | 52 | 74 | 55 |
a
The specimens were obtained in 1994 and 1995. Abbreviations: CAV, coxsackie A virus; CBV, coxsackie B virus; diploid cells, human diploid lung fibroblasts; Ent, enterovirus; EV, echovirus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; NT, not typeable.
b
All strains were vaccine-like strains.