Table 1

Effect of RH strain lineage on the production of tachyzoites in routine continuous cell culture system

Lineage/pass numbers (range)Harvests ⩾1 × 106 tachyzoites/ml, ⩾90% viable (%)Dye test success (%)
*Data for B lineage were not available before pass 56.1
B56–100*223/306 (72.3%)152/181 (84.4%)
B101–188783/825 (94.9%)217/234 (92.7%)
J1–78144/191 (75.8%)2/14 (14.3%)
Q1–78203/222 (91.4%)30/35 (85.7%)