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axenic culture

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axenic culture [ā′zen·ik ′kəl·chər]
(biology)
The growth of organisms of a single species in the absence of cells or living organisms of any other species.


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Development of media formulations permitting axenic culture of marine pathogens has enabled scientists to study the growth of parasites, their virulence factors and host-parasite interactions.
The axenic cultures are not the best way to increase larval survival, but they may be better to maintain the optimal relationships between bacteria and larvae.
Thus, it becomes difficult, if not impossible with axenic cultures to affect host dependent parasite differentiation, proliferation, or virulence factor transcription.
 
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