Plasmodium falciparum Welch
30950 ™
- Product category
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Protists
- Product type
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Parasitic protozoanDrug-resistant protozoan
- Classification
- KINGDOM: Protozoa
- Strain designation
- Honduras-1/CDC
- Type strain
- No
- Geographical isolation
- Honduras; Cholutec
- Applications
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Antimicrobial resistance researchDrug developmentInfectious disease researchVector-borne disease research
- Product format
- Frozen
Documentation
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Detailed product information
General
- Specific applications
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Emerging infectious disease researchVector borne research
Characteristics
- Susceptibility profile
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Resistant
Pyrimethamine
SusceptibleChloroquine - Comments
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pyrimethamine-resistant, chloroquine-sensitive
Handling information
- Host
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In vitro culture in human erythrocyte
- Medium
- Temperature
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37°C
- Culture maintenance
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Changing of the culture medium every 24 hours is required for a malaria-infected erythrocyte culture. Add washed, uninfected red blood cells (RBCs) to 1-3% haematocrit, and maintain parasitemia at 2-3% for continuous culture.
1. Remove flask with infected culture from 37oC incubator and place onto flask warmer in biological safety hood.
2. Carefully aspirate the medium with a sterile unplugged Pasteur pipet attached to a vacuum line. Remove as much fluid as possible without taking the cells.
3. Aseptically add sterile warm (37oC) completed medium to the flask (~8ml to a T-25, ~25ml to a T-75, etc.). Mix and smear as required to determine parasitemia (see below).
4. Add washed RBCs as necessary to obtain desired haematocrit and parasitemia.
5. Gently mix and aerate culture with gas mixture of 5% CO2, 5% O2 and 90% N2 using a sterile, cotton plugged Pasteur pipet. Quickly tighten cap of the flask and place in 37oC incubator until the next medium change.
- Cryopreservation
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1. Centrifuge ring-stage culture for 5 mins. at 1000 x g in 50 ml centrifuge tube.
2. Aspirate supernatant using sterile Pasteur pipet.
3. Resuspend pellet gently in remaining supernatant.
4. Slowly add 5 volumes of glycerolyte medium to 3 volumes pellet dropwise via a syringe as follows:
A. Add the first volume of glycerolyte and allow the tube to stand for 5 mins. at room temperature.
B. Add the remaining 4 volumes of glycerolyte and gently agitate.
5. Aliquot mixture into Nunc screw-capped freezing vials and place in a Nalgene 1C cooling apparatus. Place the apparatus at -80°C overnight and then plunge ampules into liquid nitrogen. (The cooling rate in this apparatus is approximately -1°C/min.).
6. Plunge vials into liquid nitrogen (-196oC) the next day and store in liquid nitrogen or liquid nitrogen vapor.
History
- Deposited as
- Plasmodium falciparum Welch
- Depositors
- W Trager
- Chain of custody
- ATCC <-- W Trager <-- CDC
- Type of isolate
- Human
- Year of origin
- 1980
Legal disclaimers
- Intended use
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- Warranty
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- Disclaimers
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