We undertook a comparative study of the susceptibility of different tick cell lines to infection with the European subtype of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), prototype strain Neudoerfl. The growth of TBEV was investigated in lines derived from vector Ixodes ricinus L. ticks (IRE/CTVM18, 19, and 20), as well as non-vector ticks, namely Ixodes scapularis Say (IDE2), Boophilus microplus Canestrini (BME/CTVM2), Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum Koch (HAE/CTVM9), Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Neumann (RA-257) and recently established and herein described lines from the argasid tick Ornithodoros moubata Murray (OME/CTVM21 and 22). All the tick cell lines tested were susceptible to infection by TBEV and the virus caused productive infection without any cytopathic effect. However, there was a clear difference between the TBEV growth in vector and non-vector cell lines, since I. ricinus cell lines produced 100-1000-fold higher virus yield than the non-vector cell lines. The lowest virus production was observed in O. moubata and R. appendiculatus cell lines.

Institute of Parasitology Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Ceské Budejovice Czech Republic

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