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Infectivity of Leishmania donovani Amastigotes and Promastigotes for Golden Hamsters* |
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| Authors: | JAN S. KEITHLY |
| Abstract: | SYNOPSIS. Intracardial injection of hamsters with from 5 to 114 million amastigotes or promastigotes of Leishmania donovani and screening of the 8th-day liver impression smears, provides a rapid and reproducible method for assaying infectivity. Amastigotes are at least 10X more infective than promastigotes, and log-phase promastigotes act as a single infective population for hamsters. |
| Keywords: | Leishmania donovani amastigotes promastigotes infectivity for hamsters infectivity assay |