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Infection Counter: Automated Quantification of in Vitro Virus Replication by Fluorescence Microscopy

Culley, S; Towers, GJ; Selwood, DL; Henriques, R; Grove, J; (2016) Infection Counter: Automated Quantification of in Vitro Virus Replication by Fluorescence Microscopy. Viruses , 8 (7) , Article 201. 10.3390/v8070201. Green open access

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Abstract

The ability to accurately and reliably quantify viral infection is essential to basic and translational virology research. Here, we describe a simple and robust automated method for using fluorescence microscopy to estimate the proportion of virally infected cells in a monolayer. We provide details of the automated analysis workflow along with a freely available open-source ImageJ plugin, Infection Counter, for performing image quantification. Using hepatitis C virus (HCV) as an example, we have experimentally verified our method, demonstrating that it is equivalent, if not better, than the established focus-forming assay. Finally, we used Infection Counter to assess the anti-HCV activity of SMBz-CsA, a non-immunosuppressive cyclosporine analogue.

Type: Article
Title: Infection Counter: Automated Quantification of in Vitro Virus Replication by Fluorescence Microscopy
Location: Switzerland
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/v8070201
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v8070201
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: ImageJ, focus-forming assay, hepatitis C virus, image quantification, plaque assay
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Lab for Molecular Cell Bio MRC-UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1506377
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