Isolation of the wild-type rubella virus in rabbit kidney cell line RC-IAL

• Main Authors: Cristina A. Figueiredo (Author), Maria I. Oliveira (Author), Ana M. S. Afonso (Author), Márcia Theobaldo (Author), Aurea S. Cruz (Author), Suely P. Curti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2004-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The present study describes the isolation and growth the wild-type rubella virus in RC-IAL. The susceptibility of a rabbit kidney (RC-IAL) to the RV RA 27/3 strain was previously reported by us(4). Samples of 20 patients with suspected cases of rubella infection were tested by serology, virus isolat...