EURL-PPR SOP for VNT PPR 1 Standard Operating Procedure for virus neutralisation test - PPR This standard operating procedure describes how to perform Virus Neutralisation Test (VNT) to identify the presence of specific antibodies against PPR virus into serum samples. I. Method principle Detection of serum specific antibodies against PPR virus by in vitro neutralisation of the viral cytopathic effect on cell culture. II. Abbreviations VNT : Virus Neutralisation test PPR : Peste des Petits Ruminants TCID 50 : 50% Tissue Culture Infective Dose FCS: Foetal Calf Serum CPE: Cytopathic Effect III. Materials a) Equipment - Pipettes: P100, P200, P1000, multichannel 50-300 μl and graduated pipettes - Sterile tubes - 96 well sterile microplates for tissue culture - Troughs for reagent distribution - Water bath set at 56°C - Incubator 37 °C with 5% CO 2 atmosphere - Laminar flow cabinet - Inverted microscope - Refrigerator and freezer - Vortex - Centrifuge
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EURL-PPR SOP for VNT PPR 1
Standard Operating Procedure for
virus neutralisation test - PPR
This standard operating procedure describes how to perform Virus Neutralisation Test (VNT) to
identify the presence of specific antibodies against PPR virus into serum samples.
I. Method principle
Detection of serum specific antibodies against PPR virus by in vitro neutralisation of the viral
cytopathic effect on cell culture.
II. Abbreviations
VNT : Virus Neutralisation test
PPR : Peste des Petits Ruminants
TCID50 : 50% Tissue Culture Infective Dose
FCS: Foetal Calf Serum
CPE: Cytopathic Effect
III. Materials
a) Equipment
- Pipettes: P100, P200, P1000, multichannel 50-300 µl and graduated pipettes - Sterile tubes - 96 well sterile microplates for tissue culture - Troughs for reagent distribution - Water bath set at 56°C - Incubator 37 °C with 5% CO2 atmosphere - Laminar flow cabinet - Inverted microscope - Refrigerator and freezer - Vortex - Centrifuge
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b) Reagents - VERO Cells - Titrated PPR virus suspension - Cell culture medium (MEM) (for example: MEM. ref : 21090055, Invitrogen, Fischer Scientific, France) - L Glutamine (for example: L Glutamine. ref : 25030032 Invitrogen, Fischer Scientific, France - Foetal Calf Serum (for example Dutscher ref : Pan, 3302-P280901 ) - Antibiotic-antimycotics (for example: Antibiotic-antimycotic ref: 15240062 Invitrogen, Fischer Scientific, France) - Test sera - Cleansinald à 0,5% - Alcohol 60% - Disinfectant (for example Ecodiol) - Positive control serum diluted 1:10 - Negative control serum diluted 1:10
IV. Procedure
a) Working sheet
Take a record sheet and fill it in according to the samples to be tested. All samples must be
recorded individually (see plate)
The first page is labelled with date, virus and operator. Note which PPR virus stock is used, the
virus titre and the virus dilution (inverse log) and all information required at this stage.
b) Preparation of the medium used in the plate
Prepare a sufficient volume of medium: MEM + 2% antibiotic/antimycotic + 1% L Glutamine
without serum.
c) Preparation of the serum to be tested and the control serum
In case the sera must be filtrated use a 1 ml syringe and a 13 mm Eppendorf filter with 0,22
µm or 0,45 µm porosity.
o Decomplement sera by heath at 56 °C for 30 min in a water bath.
o Dilute the serum samples (test and control) 1/10 in medium (without serum) in Eppendorf
tubes
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d) Dilution of the virus
o Remove the viral suspension from -80°C just before use.
o The virus stock, with a known titre, should be diluted to give a 103 TCID50 /ml. Use MEM
without serum but with 2% antibiotics antimycotics and 1% glutamine. 100 l (10 2 TCID50) of
this viral dilution will be added to each well, therefore prepare enough volume according to the
number of plate you want to do (you need 10 ml for one plate)
o For the control plate, take five sterile tubes labelled (1,2,3,4,5) and put 1.5 ml of the
1000TCID50/ml virus dilution in the tube (1) and add 1350 µl of MEM without serum in the other four
tubes (2,3,4,5) and prepare serial dilutions (1:10) of the virus at 10 3 TCID50/ml (doing a serial
dilution of the 100 TCID50 virus suspension ( 150 µl in 1350 µl of medium, thus giving tubes
containing:
o 1.350 ml of virus 100 TCID50
o 1.5 ml of virus 10 TCID50
o 1.5 ml of virus 1 TCID50
o 1.5 ml of virus 0,1 TCID50
o 1.650 ml of virus 0,01 TCID50
e) Preparation of the Vero cells suspension
o Vero cells are trypsinized. After counting the viable cells, they are diluted to make a
suspension of 4x105 cell/ml in MEM + 10% CSF + 2% antibiotic/antimycotic + 1% L Glutamine
(You need 5 ml for one plate)
f) Addition in the test plate
Take a 96 well tissue culture plate. One plate allows testing 6 sera tested in duplicate in serial
dilutions (1:2)
o Addition of medium: 100 µl of medium without serum is distributed in all wells except in line
B (second line)
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Scheme for medium distribution
Serum I Serum II Serum III Serum IV Serum V Serum VI
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Serum
control A
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
Serial
Dilution
1/10 B - - - - - - - - - - - -
1/20 C
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
100
µl/well
1/40 D
1/80 E
1/160 F
1/320 G
1/640 H
Addition of samples:
o 100 µl of dilution 1/10 of each serum to be tested in the first line of the plate (line A), each
sample is added in duplicate (A1, A2 …), the same sample in A1 and A2, the second sample in A3
and A4 …. A5 and A6…..A7 and A8. Change pipette tips for every sample. This line will not receive
the virus.
o 200 µl of dilution 1/10 of each sample to be tested in the second line of the plate (line B),
each sample is added in duplicate (B1, B2 …), the same sample in B1 and B2, the second sample
in B3 and B4 …. B5 and B6…..B7 and B8. Change pipette tips for every sample.
o With multichannel pipette set at 100 µl perform serum dilution by removing 100 µl from line
B to line C and ….from line D to E and from F to G … H. Discard from the last row. Thus the first
dilution of the sera is 1/10 and the last dilution is 1/640.
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Scheme for samples distribution
Serum I Serum II Serum III Serum IV Serum V Serum VI
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Control
serum A
100 µl au
1/10
Serial
Dilution
1/10 B 200 µl
1/20 C
1/40 D
1/80 E
1/160 F
1/320 G
1/640 H
o Add 100 µl of virus (100 TCID50) in each well except in the line A.
o Incubate in the incubator (37°C, 5% CO2).
o After 1 hour add in each well of the plate 50 µl of Vero cells suspension of (4x105 cell/ml).
o Incubate 7 days at 37 °C and 5% CO2.
g) Addition in the control plate
For each test a control plate has to be done.
The control plate allows the verification of the quality of the cells (control cell), viral dose
employed (virus dilution), its specificity (negative control), sensitivity (positive control) and
detection limit (limit dilution of the positive control).
100 µl
100µl
100 µl
100 µl
100 µl
100 µl
100 µl
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Medium distribution:
- 100 µl of medium without serum from line A to line E ( ten well per line : column 2 to 11),
- 200 µl in line F,
- 100 µl in lines G and H, in the column 2 to 6 and 8 to 12.
-
Scheme for medium distribution in the control plate:
- line G : well 1 and well 7 add 200 µl of the positive control diluted (1/10)
- line H : well 1 et well 7 add 200 µl of the negative control diluted (1/10)
- line G et H prepare a serial dilution (1:2) of the sera: transfer 100 µl from well 1 to well 2 and so on up to well 6. Do the same from well 7 to well 12. Discard the last 100 µl from wells G6, G12, H6 and H12.
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Scheme for control sera distribution in the control plate:
o After 1 hour add in each well of the plate 50 µl of the suspension of Vero cells (4x105 cell/ml).
o Incubate 7 days at 37 °C and 5% CO2.
h) Observation of the cytopathic effect
After 7 days incubation period, observe each well with the inverted microscope and note on the
working sheet the cytopathic effect with a sign “ +”
Confirm the reading after 10 days
If CPE is not observed then a sign ” –“ is used
The results are registered on the computer.
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V - Results
a) Test acceptance criteria
No sign of bacterial (yellow colour) or fungal (patch of mould) contamination should be observed
on the plate. The colour of the medium must be orange /pink. If it is yellow or purple it means a a
defect in the CO2 supply of the incubator.
The assay is acceptable if for the control plate:
o The real viral dose is above or equal 20 TCID50 /100 µl and lower or equal to 316 TCID50 /100 µl. The
real viral dose equal the inverse of log of N:
5,0dilutionper or wellsnumber
wellspositive ofnumber
N
- 100% of CPE for the line A (virus 100 TCID50), - at least 80% of CPE for the line B (virus 10 TCID50), - between 0 et 100% CPE for the line C (virus 1 TCID50), - maximum 50% CPE for the line D (virus 0. 1 TCID50), - 0% CPE for the line E (virus 0.01 TCID50), - 0% CPE for the line F (cell control) without virus, - 100% CPE for the line H (negative control) (virus 100 TCID50),
In addition, no viral dilution should have more CPE than any lower viral dilution.
b) Calculation of the serum sample titre
Calculation is done automatically in the work sheet.
On the two dilutions series made for a serum sample, the titre can only be calculated if the difference
between the two negative results (no CPE) and the two positive results (CPE) is not more than two dilutions:
the different acceptable possibilities are shown in the table hereunder. In all other cases, the titre is not
calculated and the sample is declared inconclusive.