Modified PEHPS Medium as an Alternative for the In Vitro Culture of Giardia lamblia

Table 2

Yield of Giardia lamblia grown in TYI-S-33 or PEHPS medium.

Strain	Medium	Final density
		Absolute	Relative
WB	TYI-S-33	11.67 ± 0.33	1.00
	PEHPS	10.06 ± 0.32	0.86^†
0989:IMSS	TYI-S-33	12.52 ± 0.31	1.00
	PEHPS	10.96 ± 0.62	0.88^†
IMSS:3	TYI-S-33	12.35 ± 0.31	1.00
	PEHPS	11.43 ± 0.43	0.92^†

Trophozoites ×10⁵ per mL; means ± standard deviations of 8 triplicate experiments.
^†𝑃>0.05.