Establishment, immortalisation and characterisation of pteropid bat cell lines.

BACKGROUND: Bats are the suspected natural reservoir hosts for a number of new and emerging zoonotic viruses including Nipah virus, Hendra virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Ebola virus. Since the discovery of SARS-like coronaviruses in Chinese horseshoe bats, attempts to isola...

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Main Authors: Gary Crameri, Shawn Todd, Samantha Grimley, Jennifer A McEachern, Glenn A Marsh, Craig Smith, Mary Tachedjian, Carol De Jong, Elena R Virtue, Meng Yu, Dieter Bulach, Jun-Ping Liu, Wojtek P Michalski, Deborah Middleton, Hume E Field, Lin-Fa Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2788226?pdf=render