Experiment ID |
Acanth_Intranasal4
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Pathogen | |
Agent Strain |
A. castellanii HN-3
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Contains Preferred Model |
No
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Reference |
Culbertson, C. ., Ensminger, P. ., & Overton, W. . (1966). Hartmannella (acanthamoeba). Experimental chronic, granulomatous brain infections produced by new isolates of low virulence. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 46, 305–314. |
Exposure Route |
intranasal
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Response |
acute meningoencephalitis
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Host type |
mice
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# of Doses |
3.00
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Dose Units |
no of trophozoites
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Μodel |
exponential
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k |
2.60E-04
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LD50/ID50 |
2.67E+03
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Experiment Dataset |
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Culbertson et al. (1966) studied the pathogenicity of the HN-3 strain of A. castellanii (Culbertson et al., 1966; Marciano-Cabral & Cabral, 2003) on ether-anesthetized-specific-pathogen-free (SPF) mice. Cultures of amebae were grown in trypticase soy broth and diluted so that 0.03 mL of a concentrated suspension could be instilled intranasally into the mice by placing fluid over the nares (Culbertson et al., 1966; Culbertson, Ensminger, & Overton, 1965a; Culbertson, Ensminger, & Overton, 1965b).
The exponential model provided the best fit to the data.
Culbertson, C. G., Ensminger, P. W., & Overton, W. M. (1966). Hartmannella (Acanthamoeba): Experimental Chronic, Granulomatous Brain Infections Produced by New Isolates of Low Virulence. The American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 46(3), 305–314.