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  • Title: Identification of arboviruses and certain rodent-borne viruses: reevaluation of the paradigm.
    Author: American Committee on Arthropod-borne Viruses, Subcommittee on InterRelationships among Catalogued Arboviruses.
    Journal: Emerg Infect Dis; 2001; 7(4):756-8. PubMed ID: 11585546.
    Abstract:
    Diagnostic and epidemiologic virology laboratories have in large part traded conventional techniques of virus detection and identification for more rapid, novel, and sensitive molecular methods. By doing so, useful phenotypic characteristics are not being determined. We feel that the impact of this shift in emphasis has impaired studies of the biology of viruses. This position paper is a plea to the scientific and administrative communities to reconsider the importance of such information. We also suggest a revised paradigm for virus isolation and characterization and provide a rationale for accumulating biologic (phenotypic) information.
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