Enrichment of Babesia caballi-infected erythrocytes from microaerophilous stationary-phase cultures using Percoll gradients

C Bhushan; I Müller; K T Friedhoff

doi:10.1007/BF00935433

Enrichment of Babesia caballi-infected erythrocytes from microaerophilous stationary-phase cultures using Percoll gradients

Parasitol Res. 1991;77(2):177-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00935433.

Authors

C Bhushan¹, I Müller, K T Friedhoff

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Parasitologie, Hannover, Federal Republic of Germany.

PMID: 2027885
DOI: 10.1007/BF00935433

Abstract

A rapid and simple method for concentrating leucocyte-free Babesia caballi-infected erythrocytes from in vitro cultures is described. Infected erythrocytes amounted to at least 95% of all red cells obtained.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Babesia / physiology*
Babesiosis / blood
Cell Separation
Centrifugation, Density Gradient
Erythrocytes / parasitology*
Horse Diseases / blood
Horses