The Chick Embryo - Types of Cultivation of Human Viruses
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Fertile chicken eggs, 9–11 days old, are used as a convenient cell system to grow a number of human pathogenic viruses. Their usefulness derives from the many types of different tissues found in the eggs, tissues that will support the growth of different viruses.
THE CHICK EMBRYO - TYPES OF CULTIVATION OF HUMAN VIRUSES
Fertile chicken eggs, 9–11
days old, are used as a convenient cell system to grow a number of human
pathogenic viruses. Their usefulness derives from the many types of different
tissues found in the eggs, tissues that will support the growth of different
viruses (Table 5.3). The use of chicken eggs is expensive and the use of cell
culture is preferred wherever possible. The use of chicken eggs for the
production of vaccine is necessarily subject to many controls. The eggs have to
be free from specific pathogens and originate from healthy flocks. The processing
of the fertilized eggs must be conducted under aseptic conditions in an area where
no other infectious agents or cells are handled at the same time.
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