Volume 9, Number 2, February 2003

Infection of Cultured Human and Monkey Cell Lines with Extract of Penaeid Shrimp Infected with Taura Syndrome Virus

Josefina Audelo-del-Valle,* Oliva Clement-Mellado,† Anastasia Magaña-Hernández,† Ana Flisser,‡ Fernando Montiel-Aguirre,‡ and Baltasar Briseño-García†
*Universidad de Occidente, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México; †Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, México, D.F., México; and ‡Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F., México

Figure 2. Microscopic image of the subcuticular tissue of the pleopod from a shrimp infected with the supernatant of the third passage of a human larynx carcinoma (Hep-2C) cell culture inoculated with an extract of shrimp infected with Taura syndrome virus. The presence of the virus is clearly visible by in situ hybridization as black spots after the samples were stained with Bismarck brown.

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