Isolates of Plasmodium inui adapted to Macaca mulatta monkeys and laboratory-reared anopheline mosquitoes for experimental study.

Authors :: Collins WE
Sullivan JS
Galland GG
Nace D
Williams A
Williams T
Barnwell JW
Source :: The Journal of parasitology [J Parasitol] 2007 Oct; Vol. 93 (5), pp. 1061-9.
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: Plasmodium inui is a parasite of macaques and other nonhuman primates in Asia that is studied as a model for the human malaria parasite P. malariae. Presented here are descriptions of the isolation, passage histories into Macaca mulatta monkeys, and infectivity to different Anopheles spp. mosquitoes of 18 different isolates of this parasite.

Subjects :: Animals
Host-Parasite Interactions
Insect Vectors parasitology
Plasmodium classification
Research Design
Serial Passage
Adaptation, Physiological
Anopheles parasitology
Disease Models, Animal
Laboratories
Macaca mulatta parasitology
Malaria parasitology
Plasmodium isolation & purification
Plasmodium physiology

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