ATCC? Number:30129?
Organism: Plasmodium cynomolgi Mayer
Designations: B
Isolation: Macaca fascicularis, West Malaysia, 1959
Depositors: National Institutes of Health
History: ATCC<<--National Institutes of Health<<--P.C.C. Garnham
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: Duration: in vivo, Macaca mulatta Protocol: ATCCNO: 30037 SPEC: This strain is distributed as a frozen stabilate. See general instructions for thawing and storage of frozen material before proceeding. As soon as the strain arrives, remove the frozen ampule from the dry ice and transfer it directly to a 35C water bath. When it is completely thawed, aseptically remove the material with a syringe and inject the entire contents of the vial into an Aotus trivirgatus. This parasite can be maintained by serial passage of parasitized blood (by intravenous inoculation) into monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus).
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Classification: KINGDOM: Protozoa
References: 4956: Eyles DE. The species of simian malaria: taxonomy, morphology, life cycle, and geographical distribution of the monkey species. J. Parasitol. 49: 866-887, 1963. PubMed: 14084190 4971: Collins WE, et al. Studies on the transmission of simian malaria. V. Infection and transmission of the B strain of Plasmodium cynomolgi. J. Parasitol. 58: 653-659, 1972. PubMed: 4626891 5106: Riv. Parassitol. 20: 273-278, 1959. 24106: Krotoski WA, et al. Immunofluorescent staining of exoerythrocytic schizonts of simian plasmodia in fixed tissue. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 22: 159-162, 1973. PubMed: 4120116 24170: Rutledge LC, et al. Plasmodium cynomolgi: sources of variation in susceptibility of Anopheles quadrimaculatus, A. balabacensis, and A. stephensi. Exp. Parasitol. 27: 53-59, 1970. PubMed: 5413008