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In vitro methods for culturing vertebrate and mosquito stages of Plasmodium
Hilary Hurd1, Ebtesam Al-Olayan, Geoffrey A Butcher
1Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, School of Biological Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. h.hurd@keele.ac.uk
Microbes and Infection
|April 23, 2003
Abstract:
The development of in vitro culture systems for the vertebrate stages of Plasmodium led to major advancements in malaria research. Here we review both improvements made in these techniques and the recent achievement of the in vitro growth of mosquito stages from ookinete to infective sporozoite.