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GOMEZ-PINERES, Ely; TAVARES-MARQUES, Lucinda  e  REYNA-BELLO, Armando. In vivo Survival Time and Cryopreservation of Trypanosoma vivax. Rev. Cient. (Maracaibo) [online]. 2009, vol.19, n.3, pp.225-229. ISSN 0798-2259.

One of the common problems working with Trypanosoma vivax is its survival and cryopreservation, which originates loss of field isolates and parasitological examinations mistakes. The aim of this paper was to study the best methodologies for in vivo survival under field conditions and cryopreservation of the T. vivax. In order to study complete blood survival of T. vivax, two surviving conditions were tested at: room temperature and refrigeration at 4°C. The result shows that surviving in cooled sampled diminished significantly (P<0.01) compare with room temperature. Nevertheless, surviving of room temperature parasite begins to diminish after 6 hours, although some parasites remained viable up to 24 hours post-harvesting. Cryopreservation studies were made under three liquid nitrogen storage conditions: 1) gaseous phase 2) liquid and 3) gaseous/ liquid phase combination (glycerol 10% and DMSO 5%, were used as cryoprotectants). After two weeks and defrost the survive of T. vivax from cryovials determined. The result show that: a) direct freezing in liquid phase samples were negative and b) the other two methodology were positive and statistically similar, glycerol 10% resulted with the greatest number of viable parasites. In conclusion, these results suggest that the best methodologies for conservation under field conditions, were that the samples infected with T. vivax must be evaluated before 8 hours post-harvesting at room temperature and cryopreservation condition of the T. vivax, must be made in gaseous phase or gaseous/liquid phase combination.

Palavras-chave : Trypanosoma vivax; cryoprotectants; freezing; cryopreservation, survival.