Volume 9, Number 2—February 2003

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Infection of Cultured Human and Monkey Cell Lines with Extract of Penaeid Shrimp Infected with Taura Syndrome Virus

Josefina Audelo-del-Valle*, Oliva Clement-Mellado†, Anastasia Magaña-Hernández†, Ana Flisser‡, Fernando Montiel-Aguirre‡ , and Baltasar Briseño-García†

Author affiliations: *Universidad de Occidente, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México; †Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, México, D.F., México; ‡Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F., México

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Figure 1. Image of mammalian cell lines injected with extracts from healthy shrimp: A, human rhabdomyosarcoma (RD), Cep-2C, BGM RD cells; C, human larynx carcinoma (Hep-2C) cells; E, BGM cells. Cytophatic effect in cultured cells inoculated with extracts from shrimp affected with Taura syndrome: B, RD cells; D, Hep-2C cells; F, BGM cells.

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