| Literature DB >> 17266953 |
Clotilde Marín1, Sandrine Fabre, Manuel Sánchez-Moreno, Michel Dollet.
Abstract
A flagellate of the family Trypanosomatidae was isolated from fruits of Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) in southeastern Spain. The isolate was successfully adapted to in vitro culture in monophasic media. The morphology showed the kinetoplast to be positioned towards the middle of the body, and the typical opistomastigote form characteristic of members of the genus Herpetomonas. Amplification of the mini-exon gene was negative, whilst for the 5S ribosomal rRNA gene the result was positive. The DNA sequence was obtained and its alignment with other trypasomatids, obtained using the BLAST algorithm, suggested it was closely related to Herpetomonas samuelpessoai.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17266953 DOI： 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.11.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Parasitol ISSN： 0014-4894 Impact factor: 2.011