The haemoculture of Trypanosoma minasense Chagas, 1908
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
; 91(4): 501-5, July-Aug. 1996. tab, graf
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ABSTRACT
Trypanosoma minasense was isolated for the first time in blood axenic culture from a naturally infected marmoset, Callithrix penicillata, from Brazil. The parasite grew profusely in an overlay of Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium plus 20 per cent foetal bovine serum, on Novy, McNeal and Nicolle medium (NNN), at 27§C, with a peak around 168 hr. The morphometry of cultural forms of T. minasense, estimates of cell population size and comparative growth in four different media overlays always with NNN, were studied. The infectivity of cultural forms to marmosets (C. penicillata and C. jacchus) and transformation of epimastigotes into metacycliclike forms in axenic culture in the presence of chitin derivates (chitosan) were evaluated.
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Trypanosoma
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Callithrix
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Ano de publicação:
1996
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