FOOD AS A CULTURE MEDIUM FOR PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS.

Fibrin and Serum as a Culture Medium

A technique is described by which a medium composed of fibrinogen suspension, serum, and embryo juice may be made. Fibroblasts grew in this medium about as well as in plasma and embryo juice. A strain of connective tissue in this medium remained practically as active as the control for several passages.

A selective medium for pleuropneumonia-like organisms.

AC - Report - Aquatic organisms as human food

Food security is concerned with the food supply. Nutrition status, however, depends not only on suitable food but also on good basic health services and, particularly for children and the elderly, adequate care. Malnutrition generally results not from a lack of food in the community (limited availability) but from the skewed distribution of the food that is available. The skew results mainly be...

Pathogenic Micro-Organisms

This well-known book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date; it is now in its eighth edition. The writers have succeeded in producing a manual which is not merely a collection of facts but is a wellbalanced and readable book in which the student and practitioner will find all that is of importance in the science and practice of bacteriology. One says bacteriology, because, although ...

LB Broth-lyophilized Rabbit Anti-sheep Cell Haemolysin as a Simple Culture Medium for Cultivation of Leishmania Major Promastigotes

Background and Aims: The protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of various clinical diseases. Different methods of cultivation of Leishmania parasites are available. In the present study, the efficacy of the LB broth with rabbit lyophilized anti-sheep red blood cell haemolysin was evaluated in the cultivation of promastigotes of Leishmania major. Materials and Met...