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J L Sever

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Rubella virus: continuous and concurrent production of complement-fixing antigen and infectious virus in suspension cultures.

Rubella complement-fixing (CF) antigen and infectious virus were produced continuously and concurrently for as long as 63 days in suspension cultures of BHK-21 cells prepared from uncloned monolayer stock cultures. CF titers ranged from 1:4 to 1:32, and the peak infectivity titer was greater than 8.0 (TCID(50) log(10)) per ml. Suspension cultures could be recultivated after prolonged storage in liquid nitrogen. The resulting monolayer or suspension cultures also produced CF antigen. Suspension cultures provide an effective system for the long-term continuous and concurrent production of rubella virus diagnostic reagents.

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Production of rubella hemagglutinating antigen in suspension cultures.

Rubella virus specific hemagglutinating antigen was prepared in the fluid phase of suspension cultures. Systems employing baby hamster kidney culture adapted inocula, nonadapted inocula, and cells derived from long-term infected suspension cultures were evaluated. Optimal specific hemagglutinating titers were obtained when kaolin-treated fetal bovine serum was used in the media and when the incoulum had previously been adapted in a suspension culture system. When cultures derived from long-term infected suspension systems were studied, the number of daily harvests in which acceptable titers were present was prolonged. However, titers were generally higher in suspension systems employing cells which had recently been infected.

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