O virus isolado dos doentes de febre amarela silvestre, durante o último surto edêmico verificado no Estado de Sao Paulo

Abstract

The author refers to the great progress made, these last years, in the investigations on yellow fever, fomerly limited to epidemic periods, sinoe there was no known way of conserving the virus. The discovery of the susceptibility of Macacus rhesus to yeltow fever, and, more recently, that of mioe to intracerebral inoculation, as also the possibility of conservation of the driad vírus have made possible the laboratory investigation cf yellow fever, thus contributing greatly to the development of the experimental researches on the same.