Eimeria vermiformis Infection Model of Murine Small Intestine
[Abstract] Eimeria vermiformis is a tissue specific, intracellular protozoan that infects the murine small intestinal epithelia, which has been widely used as a coccidian model to study mucosal immunology. This mouse infection model is valuable to investigate the mechanisms of host protection against primary and secondary infection in the small ...
Analysis of DNA Exchange Using Thymidine Analogs (ADExTA) in Trypanosoma cruzi
[Abstract] Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite belonging to the Trypanosomatidae family. Although the trypanosomatids multiply predominantly by clonal generation, the presence of DNA exchange in some of them has been puzzling researchers over the years, mainly because it may represent a novel form that these organisms use to gain variability. ...
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 ...