Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2005)

In Vitro Host-Cell Susceptibility to Usutu Virus

  • Tamás Bakonyi,
  • Helga Lussy,
  • Herbert Weissenböck,
  • Ákos Hornyák,
  • Norbert Nowotny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1102.041016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. 298 – 301

Abstract

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We investigated the susceptibility to Usutu virus (Flavivirus) of 13 permanent cell lines, 3 primary cell cultures, and chicken embryos. Vero, PK-15, and goose embryo fibroblast cells developed cytopathic effects; however, viral multiplication was detected in all mammalian cell types by immunohistochemical tests. Chicken embryo fibroblast cells and chicken embryos were resistant.

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