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passage
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See: access, admission, admittance, avenue, change, chapter, circulation, clause, conversion, division, entrance, entry, excerpt, fare, ingress, osmosis, progress, reconversion, transition, transmittal

PASSAGE. A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.



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Further studies, such as continuous serial passages and neutralization assay, are needed to determine the final activity of the virus in RD cells, as well as in other cells such as Vero and HeLa, because several species of picornaviruses have been identified as causing persistent infections in these cells in vitro (6-10).
More particularly, this invention is directed to the development of live virus vaccines against the parainfluenza group of agents following serial passage in chick embryo tissue culture, or human diploid lung fibroblasts.
The serial passage data showed extinction of the virus after 15 serial passages in the laboratory.
 
 
 
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