Improved In Vitro Culture of Plasmodium falciparum Permits Establishment of Clinical Isolates with Preserved Multiplication, Invasion and Rosetting Phenotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ribacke, Ulf ^a,c   Moll, Kirsten ^a   Albrecht, Letusa ^a,d   Ahmed Ismail, Hodan ^a   Normark, Johan ^a,e   Flaberg, Emilie ^a   Szekely, Laszlo ^a   Hultenby, Kjell ^a   Persson, Kristina E M ^a   Egwang, Thomas G ^b   Wahlgren, Mats ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Med Biotech Laboratories Uganda   (Uganda)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; ERYTHROCYTE ADHESIVENESS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GROWTH RATE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ROSETTE FORMATION; SCHIZONT; SPECIES INVASION; TROPHOZOITE;

CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ROSETTE FORMATION; TROPHOZOITES;

EID: 84880690027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069781     Document Type: Article

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