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Summary
1. The virus of Saint Louis encephalitis was recovered from the bodies of engorged larval ticks which had fed in infected adult Swiss mice. 2. Under experimental conditions the Saint Louis encephalitis virus was transmited to young Swiss mice by larval ticks. 3. Normal adult mice upon which infected, full-grown ticks had fed developed considerable resistance to intracerebral inoculation of virus.
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