Binepal, Y.S.Ongadi, F.A.Chepkwony, J.C.Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik2012-03-062012-03-0620122001Binepal, YS, Ongadi, FA & Chepkwony, JC 2001, 'Alternative cell lines for the propagation of lumpy skin disease virus’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 151-153.0030-2465http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18400The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.In our Institute lumpy skin disease virus is grown on primary lamb testis cells for isolation, identification and vaccine production. However, the availability of lambs in Kenya has been seriously reduced over the past few years. This has led to an increase in the cost of using primary lamb testis cells. This study was undertaken to investigate other primary cell lines, which are easily available and provide an equivalent or better yield of lumpy skin disease virus. Foetal bovine muscle (FBM) cells were found to be an adequate alternative for lamb testis cells.© ARC-Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).Veterinary medicineCapripox virusFoetal bovine muscle cellsKenyaLumpy skin diseaseTissue cultureVeterinary medicine -- South AfricaLumpy skin disease virusPoxvirus diseasesCattle -- Virus diseasesArticle