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Complete Sporogonic Development of Plasmodium berghei in Experimentally Infected Anopheles spp.

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SINCE the discovery of Plasmodium berghei by Vincke and Lips1, repeated attempts have been made to infect various anopheline and culicine mosquito species with this plasmodium in the laboratory. Oocysts and sporozoites have been observed in naturally infected Anopheles dureni2; but apart from the finding on two occasions of small numbers of young oocysts in experimentally infected A. maculipennis var. atroparvus3, no sporogonic development of P. berghei under experimental conditions has hitherto been described.

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YOELI, M., WALL, W. Complete Sporogonic Development of Plasmodium berghei in Experimentally Infected Anopheles spp.. Nature 168, 1078–1080 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1681078a0

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