He quickly spent the original $6,000 put up by Everson and Gorrell, but Everson procured $25,000 and laboratory space from the Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco.
Akita, CBS+/- and C57 BL/6J (WT) were procured from Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME).
Twenty month-old male C57Bl/6 mice procured from Jackson Laboratory were injected intravenously (tail vein) with rhTFAM.
The standard antibiotic disks were procured from Hi-media Laboratory, Bangalore, India.
oryzae were procured from DANIDA research laboratory, University of Mysore, India.
Standard FA and vanillin (99% purity), maltose, diammonium tartarate, yeast extract, malt extract, potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, magnesium sulfate, calcium chloride, thiamine hydrochloride, sodium hydroxide, and agar powder were procured from Hi-Media Laboratory (Mumbai, India).
All chemicals were procured from E Merck, CDH Drug laboratory, and SD Fine Chemicals.
Middlebrook 7H9, 7H11, ADC and OADC were procured from Difco Laboratories (Sparks, MD).
M. bovis BCG (Danish strain) was procured from BCG laboratories, Chennai, India.
African, fungus-growing termites Pseudacanthotermes militaris were procured from a laboratory-based colony that had been maintained for several years in the University of Dijon, France [ 38].
All the chemicals used were of laboratory grade and procured from E. Merck (Darmstadt, Germany) and S.D. Fine Chemicals (Mumbai, India).
