Publication Date:
1980-03-14
Description:
The protozoan parasite Babesia bovis, a causative agent of bovine babesiosis, has been continuously cultivated in a settled layer of bovine erythrocytes. Lowered oxygen tension within the layer of host erythrocytes results in a darkening of infected cultures and provides a rapid means of evaluating parasite growth. Deprivation of carbon dioxide causes the merozoites to accumulate in the medium rather than involving new erythrocytes. When separated from the culture, these extraerythrocytic parasites retain their infectivity. Parasites produced in vitro are morphologically identical to parasites from the blood of infected cattle and are susceptible to antibabesial drugs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Levy, M G -- Ristic, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Mar 14;207(4436):1218-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7355284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Babesia/*growth & development
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Cattle
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*Cells, Cultured
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Culture Media
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Erythrocytes/cytology/*parasitology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
