Article
[Biological properties of tick-borne encephalitis virus variants isolated by transfection].
Voprosy virusologii - 1 Jan 2000
Gavrilov V I, Zhdanov V M, Bogomolova N N, Deriabin P G, Andzhaparidze O G
Abstract excerpt
Variants of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBA) isolated by inoculation of pig embryo kidney cell cultures (SPEV) with infectious DNA from chronically infected HEp-2-Soph cells produced cytopathic effect in SPEV cell cultures. In suckling mice inoculated intracerebrally they induced inapparent infection. Titers of TBE virus variants in SPEV cell cultures treated with DEAE-dextran increased considerably. As a...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- Cell Line
- Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
- DEAE-Dextran
- Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Swine
- Transformation, Genetic
- Virus Replication
