In vitro host-cell susceptibility to Usutu virus.
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.
Bakonyi
Tamás
T
University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, A-1210 Austria.
Lussy
Helga
H
Weissenböck
Herbert
H
Hornyák
Akos
A
Nowotny
Norbert
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D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line / Q000821:virology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo / Q000821:virology*; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D003588:Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral / Q000502:physiology; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000821:virology; D005416:Flavivirus / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D018177:Flavivirus Infections / Q000821:virology*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D014709:Vero Cells