title: A new experimental in vitro culture medium for cultivation of Leishmania species.
abstract: A new liquid culture medium prepared with chemicals that can be obtained economically and commercially was tested in in vitro cultivation of Leishmania promastigotes to obtain a large number of organisms to use in serological studies. The number of Leishmania infantum and Leishmania tropica promastigotes taken from Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle (NNN) medium reached 1 x 10(7)/ml at the end of the 8th day in our new medium, though in NNN medium the number of organisms reached only 5 x 10(6)/ml. After 10 subsequent passages, the culture medium prepared was evaluated as being quite inexpensive, simple, and successful compared with other commercially available liquid culture media.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Celal Bayar University School of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Limoncu
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Balcioğlu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yereli
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ozbel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozbilgin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003470:Culture Media / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000191:economics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007891:Leishmania / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media