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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1973 February; 25(2): 262-265
Copyright © 1973 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Formalin-inactivated Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (Trinidad Strain) Vaccine Produced in Rolling-Bottle Cultures of Chicken Embryo Cells

¹ U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland 21701

ABSTRACT

Formalin-inactivated Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis vaccine was prepared from virus grown in rolling-bottle cultures of chicken embryo cells. Trinidad strain virus was propagated in these cultures with a maintenance medium consisting of serum-free medium 199 containing 0.25% human serum albumin (USP) and antibiotics. Manipulation of multiplicity of inoculum (0.06 to 0.00006) and maintenance medium volume (100 to 300 ml) resulted in high-titered virus yields and only moderate cell destruction when fluids from infected cultures were harvested at 18 to 24 hr. The virus was inactivated at 37 C by 0.05% Formalin within 8 to 10 hr and with 0.1% Formalin within 6 to 8 hr. Single dose, antigen extinction tests in mice performed with 30 small-scale vaccine lots showed excellent potency at either Formalin concentration with inactivation periods ranging from 24 to 96 hr.