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Echinococcus granulosus: development in vitro from oncosphere to immature hydatid cyst

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

D. D. Heath and
S. B. Lawrence
D. D. Heath
Affiliation:
Wallaceville Animal Research Centre, Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Private Bag, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
S. B. Lawrence
Affiliation:
Wallaceville Animal Research Centre, Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Private Bag, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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Echinococcus granulosus cysts were cultured in vitro from the oncosphere, and cyst morphogenesis is described. Cysts grew to a mean diameter of 16 mm in 120 days, with a maximum of 20 mm. An amorphous layer was apparent around the larvae during early post-oncospheral re-organization. Organisms became vesicular at 6 days and laminations appeared in the amorphous layer at 10 days. Confluence of proliferating cells to form the syncytium of the germinal membrane was observed.

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Parasitology , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , December 1976, pp. 417 - 423
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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