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Bruce Russell1, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Céline Borlon, Fabio T M Costa, Cindy S Chu, Marcus J Rijken, Kanlaya Sriprawat, Lucile Warter, Esther G L Koh, Benoit Malleret, Yves Colin, Olivier Bertrand, John H Adams, Umberto D'Alessandro, Georges Snounou, Francois Nosten, Laurent Rénia.
Abstract
Currently, there are no reliable RBC invasion assays to guide the discovery of vaccines against Plasmodium vivax, the most prevalent malaria parasite in Asia and South America. Here we describe a protocol for an ex vivo P vivax invasion assay that can be easily deployed in laboratories located in endemic countries. The assay is based on mixing enriched cord blood reticulocytes with matured, trypsin-treated P vivax schizonts concentrated from clinical isolates. The reliability of this assay was demonstrated using a large panel of P vivax isolates freshly collected from patients in Thailand.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21768300 PMCID: PMC3438884 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-04-348748
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Blood ISSN: 0006-4971 Impact factor: 22.113