Isolation of virus from embryonate eggs inoculated with material from a case of trachoma in Western Australia.

THE first convincing isolation of the trachoma virus was made by T'ang, Chang, Huang, and Wang (1957) using embryonate eggs: their findings were confirmed by Collier and Sowa (1958), who also showed that clinical trachoma followed inoculation of a human volunteer with isolated virus. Isolation of the virus from patients with trachoma in Australia has not previously been reported although the disease is common amongst the aborigines. This communication describes an apparently successful isolation from a 3-year-old half-caste boy living in the native camp at Moora, 100 miles north of Perth, Western Australia.