title: The haemoculture of Trypanosoma minasense Chagas, 1908.
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% foetal bovine serum, on Novy, McNeal and Nicolle medium (NNN), at 27 degrees 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 metacyclic-like forms in axenic culture in the presence of chitin derivates (chitosan) were evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Entomologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ziccardi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lourenço-de-Oliveira
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nogueira
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002144:Callithrix / Q000097:blood* / Q000469:parasitology; D003470:Culture Media; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D012239:Rhodnius / Q000469:parasitology; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media