Multiplication rate variation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Abstract It is important to understand intrinsic variation in asexual blood stage multiplication rates of the most virulent human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Here, multiplication rates of long-term laboratory adapted parasite clones and new clinical isolates were measured, using a newly...

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Main Authors: Lee Murray, Lindsay B. Stewart, Sarah J. Tarr, Ambroise D. Ahouidi, Mahamadou Diakite, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, David J. Conway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06295-9