Emerging Microbes and Infections (Dec 2025)

Susceptibility of calf lung slice cultures to H5N1 influenza virus

  • Kate Guilfoyle,
  • Monica Mirolo,
  • Geert van Amerongen,
  • Guido van der Net,
  • Mara Sophie Lombardo,
  • Theresa Störk,
  • Guus Rimmelzwaan,
  • Martin Ludlow,
  • Albert Osterhaus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2024.2432368
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1

Abstract

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The current outbreak of HPAI H5N1 virus infections in dairy cattle in the USA underscores the need for easily accessible methods to rapidly assess host susceptibility for infection with known and emerging influenza viruses. Here we show that ex vivo lung slice cultures from calves provide a useful method to rapidly screen host susceptibility to a range of influenza A viruses.

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