STUDIES ON THE EXTRACELLULAR CULTIVATION OF AN INTRACELLULAR PARASITE (AVIAN MALARIA) : I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANISMS IN ERYTHROCYTE EXTRACTS, AND THE FAVORING EFFECT OF ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE

The erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium lophurae were freed from their host red cells by specific hemolysis directly into a favorable medium containing an extract of duck erythrocytes. Extracellular survival and development of the parasite in vitro occurred in culture media consisting essentially of...

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Main Author: Trager, William
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1950
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2136043/