Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Purdy.
CSF does not normally contain motile cells within flagella or cilia. When motile cells are seen in the CSF, they may be incorrectly assumed to be amebae. We studied a patient with a traumatic mucocele, in whom motile ciliated respiratory epithelial cells were seen in the CSF and within a frontal lobe brain abscess.
The degree of relatedness between 4 US serotypes (10, 11, 13 and 17) of bluetongue (BT) virus (BTV) were determined by both oligonucleotide fingerprint analyses of double-stranded (ds) RNA as well as tryptic peptide analyses of viral coded polypeptides. Similar studies were undertaken using different alternate isolates of particular serotypes as well as 2 serotypes (1 and 2) of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) virus (EHDV), a closely related serogroup of orbiviruses. The results indicate that all BT viruses are genetically related to each other and although EHDV-1 and EHDV-2 originated from a common gene pool, the 2 serogroups, EHDV and BTV, are not genetically interactive.