Improvement of the observational method for Plasmodium berghei oocysts in the midgut of mosquitoes

BACKGROUND: There is a need for improving the method for counting oocysts of Plasmodium berghei in the midgut of Anopheles mosquitoes. The two methods currently used, the formalin fixation method and the mercurochrome staining method, have contradicting advantages and disadvantages. In the formalin...

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Main Authors: Usui, Miho, Fukumoto, Shinya, Inoue, Noboru, Kawazu, Shin-ichiro
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141744/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707972
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-4-118
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