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A semi-automated method for counting fluorescent malaria oocysts increases the throughput of transmission blocking studies

BACKGROUND: Malaria transmission is now recognized as a key target for intervention. Evaluation of the Plasmodium oocyst burden in the midguts of Anopheles spp. is important for many of assays investigating transmission. However, current assays are very time-consuming, manually demanding and patentl...

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Autores principales: Delves, Michael J, Sinden, Robert E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20113492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-35