CONTINUOUS CELL-LINES AND IMMUNE ASCITIC FLUID POOLS IN ARBOVIRUS DETECTION

Successive experiments led us to use two cellular systems, MOS61 (Aedes pseudoscutellaris cells) and Vero cells, among the continuous cell lines recommended by the WHO Collaborating Center for systematic research and isolation of arboviruses. Virus detection in cell cultures is carried out with 7 mixtures containing 10 hyperimmune ascitic fluids made with the reference viruses. This technique enables the detection of 70 of the 80 arboviruses transmitted by mosquitoes in Africa and very easily detects arbovirus associations by using either monospecific or monoclonal immune ascitic fluids (dengue-1-2-3-4 and yellow fever viruses) used in the indirect immunofluorescence technique.