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Summary
Trentin(3) has recently reported an outbreak of ectromelia (mouse pox) in his mouse colony at the Yale University School of Medicine. Another spontaneous epizootic in a different colony at the School is described in the present report. The virus was isolated and was shown to be related to vaccinia virus by cross hemagglutination tests and cross neutralization tests. The infected colony as well as harvests of other viral agents prepared from mice in the colony have been destroyed.
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