[Development of a live culture of cold-adapted reassortant influenza vaccines]

Vopr Virusol. 2003 Mar-Apr;48(2):12-7.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Optimal conditions for the cultivation of the MDCK cell lines in the laboratory spinner or by using the Eagle-MEM with or without fetal serum were worked out. The cold-adapted reassortant vaccine strains of virus influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2 and B are well replicated in the MDCK cells both in a monolayer and in the spinner by using the serum-free medium. A maximum virus titer depends on a multiplicity of infection used in a fetal medium and on the addition of trypsin. Under the optimal conditions, the titer of the studied cold-adapted reassortants, while using a serum-free medium, reaches as much as 10(9.0)-10(9.5) EID50/ml.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Cold Temperature*
  • Culture Media, Serum-Free
  • Dogs
  • Influenza A virus / immunology
  • Influenza A virus / physiology*
  • Influenza B virus / immunology
  • Influenza B virus / physiology*
  • Influenza Vaccines / immunology*
  • Reassortant Viruses / immunology
  • Reassortant Viruses / physiology*
  • Virus Replication

Substances

  • Culture Media, Serum-Free
  • Influenza Vaccines