A male and female gametocyte functional viability assay to identify biologically relevant malaria transmission-blocking drugs.

Malaria elimination will require interventions that prevent parasite transmission from the human host to the mosquito. Experimentally, this is usually determined by the expensive and laborious Plasmodium falciparum standard membrane feeding assay (PfSMFA), which has limited utility for high-throughp...

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Main Authors: Ruecker, A, Mathias, D, Straschil, U, Churcher, T, Dinglasan, R, Leroy, D, Sinden, R, Delves, M
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2014