Publication: Cultivation of giardia duoenalis in Mongolian Gerbils.
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2006
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Mahidol University
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Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 37(suppl 3), (2006), 21-23
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Tantawiwattananon, N, Sangloung, C, Buddhirongawatr, R, Sukthana, Y Cultivation of giardia duoenalis in Mongolian Gerbils.. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 37(suppl 3), (2006), 21-23. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/8774
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Cultivation of giardia duoenalis in Mongolian Gerbils.
Abstract
The Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) is susceptible to infection with Giardia duodenalis trophozoites. Each animal was orally infected with 0.5 ml Diamond's TYIS-33 culture medium containing 10(6) trophozoites. Cysts were then collected and concentrated by sucrose gradient centrifugation. G. duodenalis cysts were first observed in feces on day 5 post-infection. The characteristic of G. duodenalis infection in gerbils was intermittent cyst release. The range in the number of cysts released per gerbil for a 4-hour collection period was 0-1.5 x 10(3).