The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Immunology and Infection

Genetic Manipulation in Δku80 Strains for Functional Genomic Analysis of Toxoplasma gondii

Leah M. Rommereim¹, Miryam A. Hortua Triana¹, Alejandra Falla¹, Kiah L. Sanders¹, Rebekah B. Guevara¹, David J. Bzik¹, Barbara A. Fox¹

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Here we report a method for using type I and type II Δku80 strains of Toxoplasma gondii to efficiently generate targeted gene deletions and gene replacements for functional genomic analysis.