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Isolation
clinical specimen - animal
Illinois, United States
Isolation date: October 27, 1999
Product Format
frozen
Storage Conditions
liquid nitrogen vapor phase
Type Strain
no
Medium
RPMI 1640 medium with 2 mM L-glutamine adjusted to contain 1.5 g/L sodium bicarbonate, 4.5 g/L glucose, 10 mM HEPES, and 1.0 mM sodium pyruvate, 95%; horse serum, 5%
Growth Conditions
Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5%
Temperature: 37.0°C
Duration: The organism is propagated in Vero cells.
Protocol:
Scrape the Vero cells into the culture medium when holes develop in the monolayer (tachyzoite clusters are observed in the cells and 7 micrometer long banana-shaped tachyzoites are free in the medium).
Transfer approximately 0.5 ml of the harvested medium (or approximately 500,000 tachyzoites) to another T25 flask containing a fresh monolayer of vero cells.
Incubate at 37C.
Interval: approximately 1 week
Subcultivation
Protocol:
Scrape the Vero cells into the culture medium when holes develop in the monolayer (tachyzoite clusters are observed in the cells and 7 micrometer long banana-shaped tachyzoites are free in the medium).
Transfer approximately 0.5 ml of the harvested medium (or approximately 500,000 tachyzoites) to another T25 flask containing a fresh monolayer of vero cells.
Incubate at 37C.
Interval: approximately 1 week
Cryopreservation
Storage temperature: liquid nitrogen vapor phase
Name of Depositor
MM McAllister
Special Collection
NSF - Protistology
Year of Origin
October 27, 1999
References
Barber JS, et al. Characterization of the first European isolate of Neospora caninum (Dubey, Carpenter, Speer, Topper and Uggla). Parasitology 111: 563-568, 1995. PubMed: 8559588
Gondim LF, et al. Variation of the internal transcribed spacer 1 sequence within individual strains and among different strains of Neospora caninum. J. Parasitol. 90: 119-122, 2004. PubMed: 15040677
Holstein dairy calf (Bos taurus)
McAllister MM, et al. A probable source of Neospora caninum infection in an abortion outbreak in dairy cows. Bovine Practitioner 39: 69-74, 2005.
