Estudos sobre os Blastocystis

Aragão, Henrique

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“…Medication has usually been on an individual basis with drugs being given in drinking water, by dose syringe, or, more rarely, by sprinkling the drug on loose feed. Several compounds have been used in different ways for the control of bovine coccidiosis (3,(5)(6)(7). A newcomer among the anticoccidial drugs is monensin, an antibiotic now being used to control poultry coccidia (8, 9 ) .…”

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Studies of Blastocystis hominis

Zierdt

1973

The Journal of Protozoology

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SYNOPSIS Blastocystis hominis, grown in Boeck‐Drbohlav culture medium, modified by the omission of rice starch and the addition of 20% human serum and mineral oil cover to the Locke's solution overlay, can assume 3 morphologic forms. In the absence of human serum the vacuolated form, which divides by binary fission predominates. In medium with high serum content the granular form appears, with 3 types of granules. Spheroid or more elongate cytoplasmic granules predominate. In older organisms, lipid granules are found either in the peripheral cytoplasm or in the central vacuolar space. In occasional cells, variable numbers of reproductive granules develop in the central vacuolar space. These latter granules are released from the organism and give rise to typical B. hominis cells. The 3rd form, the ameba form, appears in small numbers in older cultures and in those treated with antibiotics. Ameba forms feed on bacteria and have slow pseudopodial activity. Exposure to oxygen causes rapid damage to cell membrane, with resulting leakage and collapse.

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