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Purification of rickettsial cultures contaminated by mycoplasmas
M E Eremeeva1, N M Balayeva, D Raoult
1Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS, Faculté de Medecine, Marseille, France.
Acta Virologica
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
An experimental biological model is proposed for purification of rickettsiae-infected cell cultures from mycoplasma contamination using intravenous mouse infection and subsequent passages on Vero cell monolayers. Mycoplasma-free rickettsial cultures were obtained in mouse brain or spleen suspension within 3 hrs or 3 days, respectively, after mouse inoculation. Ten strains of spotted fever group rickettsiae were purified from mycoplasmas by this procedure.