Maintenance of leptospira species in leptospira Vanaporn Wuthiekanun agar.

The maintenance of Leptospira species in liquid or semisolid medium is time-consuming and at risk of contamination due to the needs of routine subculture and dark field microscopy. Using Leptospira Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (LVW) agar, we maintained 100 pathogenic Leptospira isolates for 12 months withou...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Wuthiekanun, V, Amornchai, P, Langla, S, Oyuchua, M, Day, N, Limmathurotsakul, D
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Sammanfattning:The maintenance of Leptospira species in liquid or semisolid medium is time-consuming and at risk of contamination due to the needs of routine subculture and dark field microscopy. Using Leptospira Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (LVW) agar, we maintained 100 pathogenic Leptospira isolates for 12 months without the need for subculture and confirmed the viability of all isolates by the naked eye.