In vitro Cultivation of Leishmania donovani in NNN and Milk Agar Media

ISBN-13: 9783659641503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 64 str.

El-Sayed Abdullatif Al-Sayed Soha

Opis

A fifteen different biphasic media were used to cultivated promastigote parasite of Leishmania donovani and compared with ordinary NNN medium, to find a cow milk agar medium can provide a good cultivation to the parasite as well as the ordinary medium, where milk is a simple, cheap and a good source of protein, carbohydrate, lipids and calcium. But milk cannot be a substituted for rabbit blood as solid phase that was given the greatest count of parasites when using it. Also, using a 10% of human urine as a liquid phase can enhance the growth rate of parasite up to eight times, this reduced the time that needed to cultivate the parasite in the ordinary NNN medium. So, using of a modified NNN medium BHU (medium that used the rabbit blood as solid phase and 10% of human urine as liquid phase) in the field of laboratory can provide a short duration to cultivate Leishmania parasite.

O autorze

Soha El-Sayed Abdullatif Al-Sayed, M.Sc. degree In Medical Parasitology, Sudan Academy for Sciences, Sudan. Lecturer of Medical Parasitology at Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science, National Ribat University, Sudan. A Student of PhD, Interested About Diseases of Protozoal Parasites and In Vitro Cultivation of them.