Avirulent Semliki Forest Virus when inoculated intracerebrally and intraperitoneally into 14-day-old Swiss A2G mice induced a lethal encephalitis. There was destruction of neurones, especially pyramidal cells of the hippocampus, despite a rising serum antibody titer.
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