ATCC? Number:30160?
Organism: Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas
Designations: Corpus Christi
Isolation: 10-month-old girl, Corpus Christi, TX, 1955
Depositors: RG Yaeger
History: ATCC<<--RG Yaeger<<--N.C. Woody
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 1011: Diphasic blood agar mediumTemperature: 25.0°C Duration: axenic Protocol: ATCCNO: 11745 SPEC: See general instructions for thawing and storage of frozen material before proceeding. Add thawed contents to a single 16 x 125 mm glass screw-capped test tube of the appropriate medium. Incubate the culture vertically with the cap screwed on tightly. It is essential to establish cultures initially in small volumes. Once established, the culture can be scaled up to larger volumes. Vigorously agitate the culture and aseptically transfer 0.1 ml of culture to a fresh tube of medium weekly.
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Comments: Cardiac histology of mice [23977]
Classification: KINGDOM: Protozoa
References: 4630: Woody NC, Woody HB. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease); first indigenous case in the United States. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 159: 676-677, 1955. PubMed: 13263111 5153: Proc. 6th Int. Cong. Trop. Med. Malaria 3: 158, 1958. 23977: Rowland EC, Lavy RL. Cardiac histology of mice and experimental Chagas' Disease. J. Parasitol. 73: 240-241, 1987. PubMed: 3106610