Dear Camille.
The aim of your project is similar to our goals.
Our PhD. student work with Tribeč virus. Currently, we have isolated a strain of TRBV. We were curious how does it replicate in different host cell lines. During 25 serial passages in three different cell lines (VeroE6, A549 and BHK21), we have observed the presence of 3 sizes of plaques. Now, we would like to isolate them and genetically characterize. I do not have experience with plaque isolation. If you do, please, could you describe how to do it?
We use 2% carboxymethylcellulose for plaque formation test.
We would also like to do the same in tick cell line, but I did not find any in cell culture collection.
With best regards,
Tomas.