“…Mouse hepatitis virus type 4 (MHV-4, JHM strain), a member of the coronavirus family, is attracting increasing interest as an agent of both virus-induced encephalomyelitis and virusinduced demyelination (Bailey et al, 1949;Waksman & Adams, 1962;Lampert et al, 1973 ;Weiner, 1973;ter Meulen et al, 1981 ;Knobler et al, 1981Knobler et al, , 1982. Resistance to MHV-4-induced fatal central nervous system disease is inherited as a single autosomal recessive trait, independent of the major histocompatibility complex, expressed at the level of the neuronal cell (Knobler et al, 1981).…”