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Hæmadsorption by Measles Syncytia

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HÆMADSORPTION, the adsorption of red blood cells to cell sheets infected by viruses (as distinct from hæmagglutination by virus suspensions), has been known since 19571,2, and has been used by Chanock et al.3 for the detection of two new viruses, parainfluenza type 1 and type 3, in cell cultures.

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KOHN, A. Hæmadsorption by Measles Syncytia. Nature 193, 1088–1089 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931088a0

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