@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-39-2-351, author = "Goldfarb, Peter and Timbury, Morag", title = "A Host Range Difference between Herpes Simplex Virus types 1 and 2", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "1978", volume = "39", number = "2", pages = "351-355", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-39-2-351", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-39-2-351", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARY The infectivities of several strains of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 were measured by plating on established human and Chinese hamster cell lines. Whereas all the type 1 strains reproducibly showed a 104-fold lower titre on the Chinese hamster cells, the type 2 strains showed only a 10- to 100-fold lower titre. This host range difference has been used in the analysis of recombinants between type 1 and type 2 viruses.", }