Safe, Effective, and Inexpensive Clearance of Mycoplasma Contamination from Cultures of Apicomplexan Parasites with Sparfloxacin

Safe, Effective, and Inexpensive Clearance of Mycoplasma Contamination from Cultures of Apicomplexan Parasites with Sparfloxacin

ABSTRACT Most commercial products cannot be used for clearance of Mycoplasma contamination from cultures of apicomplexan parasites due to the parasites’ dependence on the apicoplast, an essential organelle with DNA replication and translation machinery of cyanobacterial origin. The lone exception, m...

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Main Authors: Darlene R. Malave-Ramos, Kit Kennedy, Melanie N. Key, Zhicheng Dou, Björn F. C. Kafsack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
Mycoplasma
contamination
Apicomplexan parasites
antibiotics
sparfloxacin
Plasmodium
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03497-22

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03497-22

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