Utility of human embryonic kidney cell line HEK-293 for rapid isolation of fixed and street rabies viruses: Comparison with Neuro-2a and BHK-21 cell lines

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Madhusudana, Shampur Narayan ^a   Sundaramoorthy, Subha ^a   Ullas, Padinjaremattatthil Thankappan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Fixed rabies virus; HEK 293; Rabies; Rabies diagnosis; Street rabies virus; Virus isolation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN BHK; CELL STRAIN BHK21; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL STRAIN NEURO 2A; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CRICETINAE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MICE; NEUROBLASTOMA; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; TIME FACTORS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 78649629317     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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