EXTRACELLULAR DEVELOPMENT, INVITRO, OF THE ERYTHROCYTIC CYCLE OF PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM

One way to explore the nature or the dependence of intracellular parasites on their host cell is to replace the living host cell with of non-living environment that supports development of the parasite. Bill Trager, Jonathan Williams and Gokal Gill describe their methods for abtaining extracellular development of erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum.