Fig. 1
Representative images of immunostaining of serum samples against G2b PEDV-PT infected Vero cells. Vero cells were seeded onto 96-well plates and grown overnight until reaching 90% confluency. The Vero cells were challenged with 1000 TCID50/mL of G2b PEDV-PT-P6 diluted in post-inoculation (PI) medium. Vero cells with syncytial cells, the cytopathic effect (CPE) of PEDV, were fixed with acetone after 24 h of incubation. Each serum sample from different sources was serially diluted from 160-fold to 20,480-fold, then added to the plates and incubated for 1 h. Anti-pig IgG antibodies conjugated with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or fluorescence were used to probe serum IgG on the syncytial cells. A positive signal was found in the Vero cells showing CPE. a The representative “positive” result of immunostaining using the serum sample from the C-I group at a 640-fold dilution. b The representative “negative” result of immunostaining using the serum sample from the C-N group at a 640-fold dilution. The bars represent the scale of 100 μm