Persistent infection of continuous line of pig kidney cells with a variant of the WSN strain of influenza A 0 virus.

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SummaryRES cells were infected with the RES16 variant of the WSN strain of influenza A0 virus and the culture medium changed at frequent intervals; five lines of cells were established in which infection was sustained for periods of 126 to 146 days. Each line of persistently-infected cells showed recurring cycles of cell degeneration and repopulation; these cultures did not remain in equilibrium with the virus indefinitely, however, and ultimately degenerated.The presence of virus in the RES culture fluids was easily demonstrated for periods of 27 to 105 days in various cell lines using as the indicator intraallantoic inoculation of eggs with hemagglutination by the allantoic fluids. Subsequently this method failed to demonstrate virus, although the continued presence of CPE suggested that the cultures were still infected. By using as indicator of the presence of virus the production of CPE in normal RES or PS cultures inoculated with fluids from the infected lines, it was found that influenza A0 virus wa...