Abstract
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) has emerged as a novel, contagious swine enteric coronavirus that causes watery diarrhea and/or vomiting and intestinal villous atrophy in nursing piglets. PDCoV-related diarrhea first occurred in the USA in 2014 and was subsequently reported in South Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Lao People’s Democratic Republic, leading to massive economic losses and posing a threat to the swine industry worldwide. Currently, no treatments or vaccines for PDCoV are available. The critical step in the development of potential vaccines against PDCoV infection is the isolation and propagation of PDCoV in cell culture. This chapter provides a detailed protocol for isolation and propagation of PDCoV in swine testicular (ST) and LLC porcine kidney (LLC-PK) cell cultures supplemented with pancreatin and trypsin, respectively. Filtered clinical samples (swine intestinal contents or feces) applied to ST or LLC-PK cells produce cytopathic effects characterized by rounding, clumping, and detachment of cells. PDCoV replication in cells can be quantifiably monitored by qRT-PCR, immunofluorescence assays, and immune-electron microscopy. Infectious viral titers can be evaluated by using plaque assays or 50% tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50) assays. The ST or LLC-PK cells efficiently supported serial passage and propagation of PDCoV. After serial passage of PDCoV in either ST or LLC-PK cells, the virus can be purified further in ST cells by plaque assays.
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Hu, H., Jung, K., Kenney, S.P., Saif, L.J. (2020). Isolation and Tissue Culture Adaptation of Porcine Deltacoronavirus: A Case Study. In: Maier, H., Bickerton, E. (eds) Coronaviruses. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2203. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0900-2_6
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