Isolation and Characterization of Clinical RSV Isolates in Belgium during the Winters of 2016–2018

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a very important viral pathogen in children, immunocompromised and cardiopulmonary diseased patients and the elderly. Most of the published research with RSV was performed on RSV Long and RSV A2, isolated in 1956 and 1961, yet recent RSV isolates differ from these prototype strains. Additionally, these viruses have been serially passaged in cell culture, which may result in adaptations that affect virus−host interactions. We have isolated RSV from mucosal secretions of 12 patients in the winters 2016−2017 and 2017−2018, of which eight RSV-A subtypes and fou... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Winke Van der Gucht
Kim Stobbelaar
Matthias Govaerts
Thomas Mangodt
Cyril Barbezange
Annelies Leemans
Benedicte De Winter
Steven Van Gucht
Guy Caljon
Louis Maes
Jozef De Dooy
Philippe Jorens
Annemieke Smet
Paul Cos
Stijn Verhulst
Peter L. Delputte
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Reihe/Periodikum: Viruses, Vol 11, Iss 11, p 1031 (2019)
Verlag/Hrsg.: MDPI AG
Schlagwörter: patient-derived virus / rsv / bronchiolitis / mucin / Microbiology / QR1-502
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27003317
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3390/v11111031

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a very important viral pathogen in children, immunocompromised and cardiopulmonary diseased patients and the elderly. Most of the published research with RSV was performed on RSV Long and RSV A2, isolated in 1956 and 1961, yet recent RSV isolates differ from these prototype strains. Additionally, these viruses have been serially passaged in cell culture, which may result in adaptations that affect virus−host interactions. We have isolated RSV from mucosal secretions of 12 patients in the winters 2016−2017 and 2017−2018, of which eight RSV-A subtypes and four RSV-B subtypes. Passage 3 of the isolates was assessed for viral replication kinetics and infectious virus production in HEp-2, A549 and BEAS-2B cells, thermal stability at 37 °C, 32 °C and 4 °C, syncytia formation, neutralization by palivizumab and mucin mRNA expression in infected A549 cells. We observed that viruses isolated in one RSV season show differences on the tested assays. Furthermore, comparison with RSV A2 and RSV B1 reveals for some RSV isolates differences in viral replication kinetics, thermal stability and fusion capacity. Major differences are, however, not observed and differences between the recent isolates and reference strains is, overall, similar to the observed variation in between the recent isolates. One clinical isolate (BE/ANT-A11/17) replicated very efficiently in all cell lines, and remarkably, even better than RSV A2 in the HEp-2 cell line.