ATCC? Number:50602?
Organism: Encephalitozoon cuniculi Levaditi et al.
Designations: CDC:V282
Isolation: urine from AIDS patient, Colorado, 1993
Depositors: GS Visvesvara
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 722: Minimum essential medium (MEM)Temperature: 35.0°C Duration: 5% CO2 Protocol: ATCCNO: 50451 SPEC: Thaw ampule in a 35C water bath and aseptically transfer contents to a T-25 tissue culture flask containing a monolayer of lung fibroblasts (ATCCCCL-75). Twice per week, remove the culture fluid and refeed the culture with fresh medium. Centrifuge the culture fluid at 1300 x g for 10 minutes, discard the supernatant, and transfer the resuspended cell pellet to a fresh monolayer of lung fibroblasts.
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Comments: Sporogony [43279] Environmental resistance of spores [43281] flow cytometric analysis [38799] detection of drug-induced effects in infected green monkey kidney cells [47325] Western blot and immunofluorescence analysis [38797] case report [21637] ITS RFLP analysis [18383] Control strain for enterocytozoan identification [43278] [43277]
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