While other sources are no doubt available, the suppliers of medium components used in the NIH laboratory and that have been tested for their ability to support growth of these parasites are:

• American Laboratories, Inc., Omaha, NE, USA: Gastric mucin (Catalog # 014)
• Becton Dickinson Co., Cockeysville, MD, USA: BBL Casein Digest Peptone (Catalog # 97023) and yeast extract (Catalog # 11929).
• Biofluids, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA: Vitamin mixture #18 (Catalog # 318) and Adult bovine serum (Catalog # 203).

Other sources of serum can be found here.

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