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VERO-B4 (monkey, African green, kidney)


SPECIES: monkey, African green
TISSUE/ORGAN: kidney

DSMZ catalog code: ACC 33
Morphology: adherent-elongated, fibroblast-like cells in monolayers
Susceptibility to viruses: many types of viruses
Description: monkey African green monkey kidney established from the kidney of a normal adult African green monkey in Japan in 1962; cells are susceptible to a number of viruses; used in virus replication studies and plaque assays, and as indicator cell line for mycoplasma testing confirmed as monkey with IEF of AST, LDH, NP
Viruses: ELISA: reverse transcriptase negative; PCR: EBV-, HBV-, HCV-, HIV-, HTLV-I/II-
Depositor: Dr. H. W. L. Ziegler-Heitbrock, Institute of Immunology, Munich, Germany
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