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Plasmodium gallinaceum in tissue culture. Observations after one year of cultivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

M. Xavier de Oliveira
Affiliation:
Institute de Biofisica, Rio de Janeiro
H. Meyer
Affiliation:
Institute de Biofisica, Rio de Janeiro

Extract

P. gallinaceum was cultivated in tissue cultures for 1 year. The cultures showed the same high-grade infection as has been observed previously with Toxoplasma and Trypanosoma cruzi, and made possible new observations upon the living parasite.

It has not been possible to obtain in vitro the passage from the exo- into the endoerythrocytic form.

The parasites can survive in tissue cultures, maintained at room temperature, for 23 days.

Observations concerning the periodicity and the phases of the cycle in tissue cultures are being investigated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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