Feasibility of using papaya skin extract for digestion of swamp eel viscera for harvesting infective stage larva of Gnathostoma spp.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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2005 ; 36 Suppl 4(): 90-2
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in English
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ABSTRACT
In this study, we reported the feasibility of using papaya skin extract (Carica papaya L.) as an alternative to enzyme pepsin in harvesting Gnathostoma spinigerum third-stage larvae. From experimental digestion, we found that the different numbers of recovered larvae between papaya skin extract and pepsin were not statistically significant (p >0.05). When the derived larvae from pepsin and papaya skin extract digestion were cultivated in BME medium for 7 days, the survival rates were not significantly different either (p >0.05). Thus, papaya skin extract might be another choice for recovering Gnathostoma spinigerum third-stage larvae.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Plant Extracts
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Feasibility Studies
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Blotting, Western
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Pepsin A
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Spirurida Infections
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Carica
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Digestion
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Eels
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Gnathostoma
Language:
English
Journal:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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