First, HIV and SIV do not grow in monkey kidney cells. (newscientist.com)
AFRICAN GREEN MONKEY CELL: An African green monkey kidney cell expressing the gene c - src, imaged using Bessel beam plane illumination. (scientificamerican.com)
Thus, culturing and propagation of TMAdV were successful in a human A549 cell line, but not in established or primary monkey kidney cell lines. (journals.plos.org)