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A fast, non-invasive, quantitative staining protocol provides insights in Plasmodium falciparum gamete egress and in the role of osmiophilic bodies

BACKGROUND: Ability of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes to become extracellular during gametogenesis in the mosquito midgut is a key step of the parasite life cycle. Reliable and quantitative measurement of the efficiency of gamete egress is currently constrained by the fact that this phenomenon is...

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Autores principales: Suaréz-Cortés, Pablo, Silvestrini, Francesco, Alano, Pietro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25274542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-389