Passage of duck hepatitis virus in cell cultures derived from avian embryos of different species.
An egg-attenuated strain of duck hepatitis virus was successfully passaged through cell cultures of avian embryos derived from goose, turkey, guinea fowl, Japanese quail, pheasant and chicken. Two field strains of the virus were passaged in a more limited range of species.
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000196:embryology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002645:Chickens; D003370:Coturnix; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000382:microbiology*; D004770:Enterovirus; D005777:Geese; D004371:Hepatitis Virus, Duck; D013045:Species Specificity; D014422:Turkeys