A comparative ultrastructural study of the low virulent strain PV-C1/81 and RH strain cultured in A9, Vero, SIRC cell lines

Int J Biol Res Pregnancy. 1981;2(3):134-41.

Abstract

A human Toxoplasma strain, isolated in mice from bioptic lymphoglandular tissue, has been cultured in vitro in continuous cell lines. Its presence in some parastized cells, with parasitophorous vacuoles surrounded by a cyst-like wall and filled with a cystozoite-like clone, was observed by electron microscopy. These characteristic and constant features were confined in different cell line cultures and are suggested as possible markers of low virulent strains.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / parasitology
  • Cell Line
  • Chlorocebus aethiops
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum / ultrastructure
  • Lysosomes / ultrastructure
  • Membranes / ultrastructure
  • Organoids / parasitology*
  • Toxoplasma / growth & development
  • Toxoplasma / pathogenicity*
  • Toxoplasma / ultrastructure
  • Vacuoles / parasitology*