Development of a microtitre-based spectrophotometric method to monitor Babesia divergens growth in vitro

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-312

  Malandrin, Laurence ^a   Marchand, Anne Marie ^a   Chauvin, Alain ^a  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

A405; Absorbance at 405 nm; Babesia divergens; Generation time; Hemoglobin spectrophotometry; In vitro culture; infected red blood cell; iRBC; RBC; red blood cell; Tritiated hypoxanthine incorporation

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HYPOXANTHINE; TRITIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BABESIA DIVERGENS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPERNATANT;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOXANTHINE; PARASITEMIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

BABESIA; BABESIA DIVERGENS;

EID: 3242776099     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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