Infectivity of Leishmania donovani Amastigotes and Promastigotes for Golden Hamsters*
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Protozoology
- Vol. 23 (2), 244-245
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1976.tb03763.x
Abstract
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
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