Place the steps in the correct order to reflect how a lethal dose may be determined. _____ Dilutions of virus are made to represent a range of concentrations. _____ Inoculated host cells are observed and the number of dead cells are counted. _____ The dilution which killed 50% of the tissue culture cells is identified. _____
Dilutions are inoculated into susceptible tissue cultures (or susceptible host organisms).

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


1, 3, 4, 2

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