Permissiveness of bovine epithelial cells from lung, intestine, placenta and udder for infection with Coxiella burnetii

Table 1 Cell lines used in this study

Code	Clone	Origin		Culture medium	Source	Reference
Code	Clone	Organ	Donor	Culture medium	Source	Reference
L	BEL-26	Lung	Fetal	Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM, 1.0 g/mL glucose)	CCLV^a	(–)
G	FKD-R 971	Jejunum	Fetal	Iscove’s Modified Dulbecco’s Medium (IMDM)/Ham’s F12 nutrient mix [1:1]	CCLV^a	(–)
Pm	BCEC	Maternal placenta	Mature/pregnant	DMEM (4.5 g/mL glucose)/Ham’s F12 nutrient mix [1:1]	TiHo^b	[35]
Pf	F3	Fetal placenta	Mature/pregnant	DMEM (4.5 g/mL glucose)/Ham’s F12 nutrient mix [1:1]	TiHo^b	[36]
U	PS	Udder	Mature	Advanced DMEM/Ham’s F12 nutrient mix [1:1] + additional components^d	INRA^c	[17]

^aCollection of Cell Lines in Veterinary Medicine (CCLV) at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Isle of Riems), Germany; cell line FKD-R 971 was generated by Roland Riebe (RIE 971).
^bChristiane Pfarrer, Department of Anatomy, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.
^cPascal Rainard, ISP, INRA, Université Tours, Nouzilly, France.
^dSee “Materials and methods”.

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