Propagation and Infection Kinetics of Nipah and Cedar Viruses

The Bangladeshi strain of the Nipah virus (NIV) was obtained from the Viral Special Pathogens Branch of the CDC, was originally isolated from a fatal human infection in Bangladesh in 2004, and was passaged in Vero E6 cells a total of three times [16 (link)]. Cedar virus (CedPV) was obtained from CSIRO (Geelong, Australia) and was isolated from bat urine inoculated onto primary bat kidney cells, followed by passaging on Vero E6 cells (ATCC) [7 (link)]. Both viruses were propagated on Vero E6 cells at RML in Dulbecco’s minimal essential medium (DMEM) (Sigma) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 2 mM L-glutamine, 50 IU/mL penicillin, and 50 µg/mL streptomycin (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA).
BHK-21 cells (CCL-10, ATCC, Manassas VA, USA) were propagated in 24-well tissue culture plates and inoculated with CedPV or NiV (or mock) with a MOI of 1.0 or 0.1 for 1 h, washed twice in DMEM, and incubated at 37 °C, 5% CO₂ for the indicated amount of time.
Human lung blood microvascular endothelial cells (LBMVEC) (CC-2527, Lonza, Walkersville MD, USA) were maintained in an EGM-2 medium (Lonza). The cells were seeded in 24-well plates one day prior to inoculation with CedPV or NiV with a MOI of 0.1. At the indicated time points, supernatants were collected for virus quantitation and the cells were lysed in buffer RLT (Qiagen) to quantitate viral or cellular RNA.