An ultrastructural study of the culture forms of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) myoti

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Abstract
T. myoti from the bat Myotis lucifugus was cultured in a diphasic blood-agar and saline medium and examined using transmission electron microscopy. Glutaraldehyde fixation revealed a pattern of kinetoplast DNA condensation in the epimastigote which is characteristic of the subgenus Schizotrypanum. Ferritin was used to demonstrate a functional cytosome-cytopharynx complex. Replication of the basal bodies, flagella, kinetoplast and the nucleus during binary fission is described. Also present were cells which contain multiple sets of organelles and which undergo multiple fission. The ultrastructural features of T. myoti resemble those of T. cruzi.