Growth and infectivity titration of virulent infectious bursal disease virus in established cell lines from lymphoid leukosis tumors.

Abstract

Lymphoblastoid cell lines were investigated for susceptibility to virulent (wild) infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) and attenuated IBDV by detection of fluorescent antigen in inoculated cells. LSCC-BK3 and LSCC-CU10 cells were susceptible to both types of IBDV; LSCC-1104-B-1 line was susceptible to only the attenuated IBDV. However, 2 lymphoid leukosis and 2 Marek's disease cell lines were refractory to growth of any type of IBDV. When the J1 strain of virulent IBDV was inoculated into LSCC-BK3 cells, intracellular and extracellular viruses began to increase logarithmically between 4 and 8 hr postinoculation and reached 10(6.3) and 10(7.3) TCID50/0.1 ml, respectively, at 72 hr. Infectivity titration and serum-neutralization tests of virulent IBDV were possible with LSCC-BK3 cells.