Majewska Anna C., Kasprzak Witold - New axenic isolates of
Giardia from primates.
Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Karol Marcinkowski
University of Medical Sciences, 10 Fredry Street, 61-701 Poznan, Poland;
tel/fax (061) 8527192; e-mail: acmaj@eucalyptus.usoms.poznan.pl
ABSTRACT
In this study two further axenic Giardia isolates obtained from a
silvery
marmoset Callithrix argentata (Callithricidae) and a red-bellied
guenon
Cercopithecus erythrogaster (Cercopithecidae) are described.
Biological
features of the new primate Giardia isolates, such as morphometry
of trophozoites, generation time and procedure of axenic isolation are
presented.
KEY WORDS: Giardia, Callithrix argentata,
Cercopithecus erythrogaster, primates, axenic culture
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