Isolation of HIV using T-lymphocyte ‘panning’: methodological aspects

Autor: Court Pedersen, Lars Mathiesen, Petersen Jl, Carsten M. Nielsen, Nielsen Cm, Bent Faber Vestergaard
Rok vydání: 1989
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Zdroj: Journal of Virological Methods. 26:105-114
ISSN: 0166-0934
DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(89)90078-5
Popis: A technique for isolation of HIV using selective cultures of T4 cells obtained from peripheral blood by immunochemical separation was developed and optimized. Using this method infectious virus could be isolated in single isolation attempts from 89% of 35 HIV-infected patients in different stages of immunodeficiency. This isolation frequency was virtually independent of the stage of the disease, in contrast to the results obtained by the conventional isolation technique based on peripheral mononuclear cells (PMC). It is concluded that isolation of HIV from selected T4 cells is superior to other methods when isolation is attempted from healthy HIV-infected individuals.
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