Publication Date:
1980-01-11
Description:
A strain of type 2 human rotavirus (Wa) was grown to relatively high titer through 14 passages in primary cultures of African green monkey kidney (AGMK) cells. This passage series was initiated with virus that had been passaged 11 times serially in newborn gnotobiotic piglets. In contrast, virus present in the stool of patient Wa as well as virus from the first, second, or third passage in piglets could not be propagated successfully in African green monkey kidney cells. Prior to each passage in cell culture, the virus was treated with trypsin and the inoculated cultures were centrifuged at low speed. Cultivation of a type 2 human rotavirus should aid attempts to characterize this virus and to develop a means of immunoprophylaxis for a serious diarrheal disease of human infants.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wyatt, R G -- James, W D -- Bohl, E H -- Theil, K W -- Saif, L J -- Kalica, A R -- Greenberg, H B -- Kapikian, A Z -- Chanock, R M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Jan 11;207(4427):189-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6243190" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antigens, Viral/analysis
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Cells, Cultured
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Diarrhea, Infantile/microbiology
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Germ-Free Life
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Haplorhini
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Humans
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Infant
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RNA Viruses/*growth & development
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Rotavirus/*growth & development/immunology
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Swine
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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