Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Dispatch
Human Tick-Borne Encephalitis and Characterization of Virus from Biting Tick
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Figure 2. Time course of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) multiplication from sample from a 67-year-old man in Sweden, 2011. A549 cells were infected with the virus isolated from the tick in this study, tick/SWE/Habo/2011/1, and reference strain Hypr at multiplicity of infection 0.1. Total cellular RNA and cell culture supernatants were collected at different time points postinfection. A) Intracellular levels of viral RNA quantified by real-time reverse transcription PCR analysis. B) Virus titers in cell culture supernatants as determined by focus-forming assay (FFU). Mean values from 3 independent experiments are shown; error bars indicate SD. p values determined by Student t test.
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