Abstract
Summary and Conclusion
1) Low ability of some strains of mumps virus to agglutinate human rbc was studied. Some individual-infected amniotic and allantoic fluids and pooled virus preparations agglutinated human erythrocytes nearly as well as fowl erythrocytes. When virus fluids, failing to agglutinate human cells, were treated by various procedures capable of removing or destroying inhibitors, they became positive. 2) Failure to agglutinate human erythrocytes is not a stable intrinsic characteristic of certain strains of mumps virus but is due to inhibitors present in virus preparations.
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