title: Newcastle disease virus: propagation, quantification, and storage.
abstract: Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a prototype paramyxovirus used to define basic steps in the life cycle of this family of viruses. NDV is also an ideal virus system for elucidating determinants of viral pathogenicity. Some strains of this virus are important agricultural pathogens that cause disease in poultry with a high mortality while other strains are avirulent and used for vaccines. Methods for preparation and titration of virus stocks are essential for all of these purposes. Procedures for growth and purification of NDV stocks in embryonated chicken eggs as well as in tissue culture cells are described. Use of embryonated chicken eggs to grow the virus is the superior method since infectious stocks of all strains of NDV result. Stocks of avirulent NDV prepared in tissue culture are noninfectious. Virus stocks are routinely titered using plaque assays or hemagglutination assays, both of which are described.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Lori W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: McGinnes
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Homer
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pantua
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reitter
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Trudy G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Morrison
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002642:Chick Embryo; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D009522:Newcastle disease virus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000379:methods; D010948:Viral Plaque Assay; D014776:Virus Cultivation / Q000379:methods*
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