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Discovery of New Intracellular Pathogens by Amoebal Coculture and Amoebal Enrichment Approaches
Published on: October 27, 2013
Applying of bacteria Cellulosimicrobium sp. for cultivation protozoa of genus Acanthamoeba
Volodymyr Shyrobokov1, Vadym Poniatovskyi1, Anastasiia Chobotar1
1Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Bogomolets National Medical University, Peremogy av. 34, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstract:
The aim of this study was identification features of cultivation representatives of genus Acanthamoeba isolated from bentonite using Cellulosimicrobium sp. as a bacteria-feeders. Identification of isolated bacteria was conducted by morphological, cultural and molecular-genetic methods. The cultivation of free-living „bentonite” amoeba on the lawn of Cellulosimicrobium sp. have gained significant advantages than using Escherichia coli as a bacteriafeeders was shown. “Bentonite” amoeba form crateroid plaques, which fit to the quantitative characteristic materials which contains amoeba, during deep co-cultivation Acanthamoeba sp. and Cellulosimicrobium sp. on 1% glucose meet-peptone agar.

