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. 1990 Oct;64(10):5183–5187. doi: 10.1128/jvi.64.10.5183-5187.1990

Effect of antiviral antibody on maintenance of long-term rubella virus persistent infection in Vero cells.

E S Abernathy 1, C Y Wang 1, T K Frey 1
PMCID: PMC248014  PMID: 2398541

Abstract

A Vero cell line with a long-term rubella virus persistent infection was maintained for 45 weeks in the presence of anti-rubella virus antibody of sufficient titer to completely neutralize the virus in the culture fluid to determine the effect of the presence of antibody on the maintenance of the persistent infection. Prior to antibody treatment, virus was continuously detected as plaque-forming units in the persistently infected culture fluid. Virus clones that were plaque purified from the persistently infected culture fluid were temperature sensitive and exhibited a reduced efficiency of replication and ability to induce cytopathic effects in Vero cells at the persistently infected culture temperature compared with the standard virus used to initiate the persistently infected culture. Defective interfering RNAs were the major intracellular virus-specific RNA species present in the persistently infected cells. Treatment with antibody failed to cure the persistently infected culture of virus, and the cells retained the ability to release virus after antibody treatment was discontinued. Interestingly, the presence of antibody led to the selection of a population of virus which was markedly less cytopathic for Vero cells than the virus population which was selected during persistent infection in the absence of antibody.

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