Abstract
There is an important role for in vitro assays to better understand the initial steps of malaria infection. In this section, we describe both microscopy-based and flow cytometry-based sporozoite invasion, migration and development assays with the rodent malaria parasites, Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium yoelii, and the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
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Sinnis, P., De La Vega, P., Coppi, A., Krzych, U., Mota, M.M. (2012). Quantification of Sporozoite Invasion, Migration, and Development by Microscopy and Flow Cytometry. In: Ménard, R. (eds) Malaria. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 923. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-026-7_27
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