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Refinement of pepsin digestion method for isolation of Toxoplasma gondii from infected tissues
1United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute, Parasite Biology and Epidemiology Lab., Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA. jdubey@ggpl.arsusda.gov
Veterinary Parasitology
|March 11, 1998
Abstract:
Modification of the acid pepsin digestion procedure to isolate Toxoplasma gondii from animal muscular tissues is described. Muscles were incubated for 60 min instead of 90 min and acid was neutralized with 1.2% (w/v) sodium bicarbonate instead by repeated washings and centrifugations.

