“…Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the most intensively studied coronavirus. The sensitivities of some IBV strains, for example Beaudette, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, to chemical and physical treatments have been thouroughly examined (4,6,13,14,17,21,22,23), but the results have differed from one report to another. Contradictory results have been particularly reported on the resistance of the strains to exposure to 56 ° C (6,9,13,17,18,22), to pH 3.0 (3,4,7,9,12,18,20), to pH 12.0 (18,20), to trypsin (4,5,9,17,21,22), and to ether (9,12,14,18,20).…”