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Higher titers of some H5N1 and recent human H1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses in Mv1 Lu vs. MDCK cells

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Virol J. 2011 Feb 11;8(1):66. [Epub ahead of print]
Higher titers of some H5N1 and recent human H1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses in Mv1 Lu vs. MDCK cells.

Hamilton SB, Wyatt DE, Wahlgren BT, O'Dowd MK, Morrissey JM, Daniels DE, Lednicky JA.
Abstract

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND: The infectivity of influenza A viruses can differ among the various primary cells and continuous cell lines used for such measurements. Over many years, we observed that all things equal, the cytopathic effects caused by influenza A subtype H1N1, H3N2, and H5N1 viruses were often detected earlier in a mink lung epithelial cell line (Mv1 Lu) than in MDCK cells. We asked whether virus yields as measured by the 50% tissue culture infectious dose and plaque forming titer also differed in MDCK and Mv1 Lu cells infected by the same influenza virus subtypes.

RESULTS: The 50% tissue culture infectious dose and plaque forming titer of many influenza A subtype H1N1, H3N2, and H5N1 viruses was higher in Mv1 Lu than in MDCK cells.

CONCLUSIONS: The yields of influenza subtype H1N1, H3N2, and H5N1 viruses can be higher in Mv1 Lu cells than in MDCK cells.

PMID: 21314955 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Free Article

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21314955
 
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