Studies on Replication of Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Cultured Macrophages Derived from Rodents and Human Blood

It was found that the epidemic hemorrhagic fever(EHF) viruses could be replicated well in cultured peritoneal macrophages derived from Mongolian gerbiles, Syrian golden hamster and Balb/c mice as well as in cultured human peripheral blood leukocyte. The sensitivity of maerophages from Mongolian gerbiles and Syrian golden hamster were higher than Vero-E_6-cells, however, the macrophage from Balb/c mouse was less sensitive than the other three. No obvious difference was observed for the replicating ability in...