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Culture and phenotypic characterization of a Wolbachia pipientis isolate.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2003
Fenollar Florence, La Scola Bernard, Inokuma Hisashi, Dumler J Stephen, Taylor Mark J, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
The recent isolation of Wolbachia pipientis in the continuous cell line Aa23, established from eggs of a strain of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus, allowed us to perform extensive characterization of the isolate. Bacterial growth could be obtained in C6/36, another A. albopictus cell line, at 28 degrees C and in a human embryonic lung fibroblast monolayer at 28 and 37 degrees C, confirming that its host...
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