Removal of bacterial and yeast contamination from Leishmania promastigote cultures, by agar plating

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 617-621

  Muniaraj, M ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Narayan, S ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Sinha, P K ^a   Kishore, K ^a   Das, P ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLUCYTOSINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PROMASTIGOTE; RURAL AREA; URBANIZATION; YEAST;

AGAR; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; YEASTS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 24044506649     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X51337     Document Type: Article

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