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Development of a plaque assay for Newcastle Disease virus. Memorandum report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6501828

A reliable plaque assay system for virulent strains of Newcastle Disease virus (eg. Type BL, LaSota strain used in vaccines and at DRES as a viral BW simulant) utilizing a continuous monkey kidney cell line (LLC-MK2) is described. The use of a continuous cell line eliminates the added time and inconvenience of preparing primary cell cultures (eg. chick embryo fibroblasts) to quantitate the number of infectious virus particles.

Research Organization:
Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Ralston, Alberta (Canada)
OSTI ID:
6501828
Report Number(s):
AD-A-178949/4/XAB; DRES-SM-1185
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English