The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 102, 617-630,
Copyright, 1955, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
AN INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN IN MICE
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II. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFECTIVE AGENT
Janet Jordan M.D.1,
George S. Mirick M.D.1, and
With the Technical Assistance of Marjorie G. Huck
1 From the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
A transmissible agent (AHA) causing ascites and hepatitis in mice has been described. No known pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, leptospira, rickettsia, or viruses have been demonstrated in the infected mice. AHA does not pass through a Seitz filter and differs in most respects from the agents previously described which produce hepatitis in mice.
Submitted on August 3, 1955