Abstract
Summary
A simple charcoal viral transport medium (CVTM) has been devised that permits the survival of representative viral agents for at least 3 weeks at ambient temperatures. Amies' bacterial transport medium was useful for the transporting of specimens containing adenovirus agents but the thioglycollate present in this medium is inhibitory to herpesvirus, Cozsackie virus and the myxoviruses. The use of DEAE-dextran as a detoxifying agent is limited because it is inhibitory to the myxoviruses.
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