Qualification of Standard Membrane-Feeding Assay with Plasmodium falciparum Malaria and Potential Improvements for Future Assays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Miura, Kazutoyo ^a   Deng, Bingbing ^a   Tullo, Gregory ^a   Diouf, Ababacar ^a   Moretz, Samuel E ^a   Locke, Emily ^b   Morin, Merribeth ^b   Fay, Michael P ^a   Long, Carole A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 4B7; PARASITE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; IMMUNOASSAY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD MEMBRANE FEEDING ASSAY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANES; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84874626403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057909     Document Type: Article

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