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Isolation of group B porcine rotavirus in cell culture
T Sanekata1, Y Kuwamoto, S Akamatsu
1Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Japan. sanekata@agr.tottri-u.ac.jp
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
While group A and C rotaviruses have been grown in cell culture, group B rotavirus has never been cultured. In this study we successfully isolated porcine group B rotavirus in swine kidney cells. Pancreatin treatment is essential for the propagation of group B rotavirus.