ATCC? Number:30032?
Organism: Trypanosoma rangeli Tejera
Designations: Venezuelan E1 Tocuyo
Isolation: human, Venezuela, 1956
Depositors: EJ Tobie
History: ATCC<<--EJ Tobie<<--F. Pifano
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 1012: 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: Increased infectivity of a cyclically maintained strain [4960]
Classification: KINGDOM: Protozoa
References: 4960: Tobie EJ. Increased infectivity of a cyclically maintained strain of Trypanosoma rangeli to Rhodnius prolixus and mode of transmission by invertebrate host. J. Parasitol. 50: 593-598, 1964. PubMed: 14215475