ATTEMPT AT INVITRO GROWTH OF PRE-ERYTHROCYTIC FORMS OF PLASMODIUM-VIVAX IN HUMAN LIVER-CELL CULTURES INOCULATED WITH SPOROZOITES

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 170  (3) , 661-665
Abstract
Sporozoites of a strain of P. vivax of North Korean origin maintained in human subjects and in Anopheles atroparvus, were inoculated into human liver cell cultures (primary and 1st subcultures). Some rare intracytoplasmic forms very likely connected with the pre-erythrocytic cycle of P. vivax are described. Further attempts are nevertheless necessary to confirm or invalidate the results.