Skip to main content

Table 2 Yields Obtained for Influenza virus H1N1 Strains Grown in Bagged ECE.

From: Gas-permeable ethylene bags for the small scale cultivation of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and other viruses in embryonated chicken eggs

Strain

Specimen source

Log10TCID50/mla

A/Puerto Rico/8/1934

Human

7.5

A/New Caledonia/20/1999

Human

7.9

A/Hawaii/15/2001

Human

7.9

A/Solomon Islands/03/2006

Human

7.0

A/New York/18/2009

Human

8.0

A/Mexico/408/2009

Human

7.0

  1. aTCID50/ml of CAS fluids in MDCK cells in serum-free growth medium plus trypsin. CAS fluids from four ECE were harvested and pooled 48 hrs after infection of 9-day old ECE with 102 TCID50 units of virus and incubation at 34°C