This parasitic protozoan is resistant to metronidazole and can be used in antimicrobial resistance research, drug development, infectious disease research, and sexually transmitted disease research.
Enterovirus D68 strain Fermon is propagated in MRC-5 cells (ATCC CCL-171). This strain was isolated from a nasopharyngeal swab from of a 10-month-old female hospitalized in California in 1962.