Long-term in vitro Culture of Cryptosporidium parvum
Authors: Nigel Yarlett and
Mary Morada,
date: 08/05/2018,
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[Abstract] Continuous in vitro growth of Cryptosporidium parvum has proved difficult and conventional in vitro culture techniques result in short-term (2-5 days) growth of the parasite resulting in thin-walled oocysts that fail to propagate using in vitro cultures, and do not produce an active infection using ...
Alphavirus Purification Using Low-speed Spin Centrifugation
[Abstract] Chemical and sedimentation procedures are used to purify virus particles. While these approaches are successful for wild-type viruses, they are often not feasible for purifying mutant viruses with assembly defects. We combined two published methods (Atasheva et al., 2013; Moller-Tank et al., 2013), to generate a protocol that ...
Induction, Isolation and Counting of Akinetes in Aphanizomenon ovalisporum
[Abstract] Akinetes are spore-like resting (dormant) cells formed by strains of filamentous cyanobacteria for surviving long periods of unfavorable conditions. During deprivation for potassium, vegetative photosynthetic cells along the filaments of the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon ovalisporum (A. ovalisporum) (strain ILC-164) differentiate ...
Isolation of Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities from Soil
[Abstract] Rhizosphere bacterial communities have become a major focal point of research in recent years, especially regarding how they affect plants and vice versa (Philippot et al., 2013). Changes in microbial density and diversity within the rhizosphere occur in a spatial temporal manner. The soil zone closest to the plant roots has the most ...