The influenza D virus strain D/bovine/France/5920/2014 was isolated from the lung of a dead calf with clinical signs of BRD (9 ). The virus was propagated on human rectal tumor cells (ATCC CRL-11663) in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (
DMEM; Dutscher, France) supplemented with 1 μg/ml TPCK (tosylsulfonyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone
)-trypsin (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA) at 37°C, 5% CO
2 for 5 days. Viral titer was determined on swine testis cells (ATCC CRL-1746) using the 50% tissue culture infective dose (TCID
50) method as previously described (17 (
link)).
M. bovis strain RM16 was isolated in 2016 in France from a pool of transtracheal aspiration samples from 3 heifers with clinical signs of respiratory infection (48 (
link)). Mycoplasma cells were grown in SP4 medium (49 ) supplemented with cephalexin (500 μg/ml). After 24 to 36 h of incubation at 37°C, mycoplasma cultures were stored at −80°C. Mycoplasma titers were determined by serial dilutions in Dulbecco’s phosphate-buffered saline (PBS; Invitrogen) supplemented with 1%
heat-inactivated horse serum (Invitrogen). Dilutions were spotted (10 μl) onto solid SP4 medium, and CFU were counted after 2 to 5 days of incubation at 37°C. For animal inoculations, mycoplasma cells were washed twice in
DMEM by 20 min of centrifugation at 9,000 ×
g and kept on ice. Prior to inoculation, 10
10 CFU were diluted in 10 ml
DMEM.
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