Table 3. Growth efficiency of Vero-adapted influenza H5N1 virus (Vero-15) in microcarrier-based Vero cell cultures in 100-ml spinner flasks.
Virus titers | ||
Days post infection | HA units/50 µL | TCID50/ml (log10) |
2 | <4 | 3.83±0.19 |
3 | 128 | 7.71±0.10 |
4 | 1024 | 8.58±0.07 |
5 | 1024 | 8.78±0.10 |
6 | 2048 | 8.60±0.00 |
HA: hemagglutination.
TCID50 (50% tissue culture infectious dose) was measured in triplicate and shown as geometric mean ± standard error of mean.