Measuring the blockade of malaria transmission - An analysis of the Standard Membrane Feeding Assay

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1037-1044

  Churcher, Thomas S ^a   Blagborough, Andrew M ^a   Delves, Michael ^a   Ramakrishnan, Chandra ^a   Kapulu, Melissa C ^b   Williams, Andrew R ^b   Biswas, Sumi ^b   Da, Dari F ^c,d   Cohuet, Anna ^c,d   Sinden, Robert E ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^d University de Montpellier   (France)

Author keywords

Malaria; Mosquito; Oocyst; Plasmodium; Standard Membrane Feeding Assay; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOASSAY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MALARIA; MEMBRANE; MOSQUITO;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; STANDARD MEMBRANE FEEDING ASSAY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84868087312     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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