Maintenance of Acanthamoeba culbertsoni by cryopreservation

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1261-1263

  Alejandre Agullar, Ricardo ^a   Calvo Méndez, Ma Lourdes ^a   Nogueda Torres, Benjamin ^a   De La Jara Alcocer, Fernando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CULBERTSONI; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; TEMPERATURE; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CULBERTSONI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032438314     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284685     Document Type: Article

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