TRYPANOSOMA-BRUCEI EVANSI - DYSKINETOPLASIA AND LOSS OF INFECTIVITY AFTER LONG-TERM INVITRO CULTIVATION

被引:21
作者
ZWEYGARTH, E
KAMINSKY, R
WEBSTER, P
机构
[1] KENYA TRYPANOSOMIASIS RES INST, KIKUYU, KENYA
[2] FREE UNIV BERLIN, INST PARASITOL & TROP VET MED, W-1000 BERLIN 33, GERMANY
[3] INT LAB RES ANIM DIS, NAIROBI, KENYA
关键词
Cultivation in vitro; Drug susceptibility; Dyskinetoplasia; Infectivity; Trypanosoma brucei evansi;
D O I
10.1016/0001-706X(90)90048-5
中图分类号
R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
Bloodstream forms of a stock of Trypanosoma brucei evansi were propagated in vitro for more than 14 months. After that period, all organisms were dyskinetoplastic and had lost their infectivity for mice. An increase in diminazene aceturate resistance in vitro was observed whereas the susceptibility to isometamidium chloride, quinapyramine sulphate and suramin was unaltered. Trypanosomes derived from the long term culture had a surface coat. © 1990.
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