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MANY authors in the past have observed the disappearance of gametocytes of certain blood protozoa as a result of their continuous and prolonged mechanical transmission. This phenomenon was especially studied by Vincke et al.1, Rodhain et al.2, Jadin, Yoeli and Pierreux3, and by Michiels4 in strains of Plasmodium berghei maintained in the laboratory for years by ‘syringe passages’. The rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium (Vinckeia, from Garnham5) vinckei6, isolated in 1952, behaves similarly.
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BAFORT, J., VINCKE, I. & TIMPERMAN, G. Gametogenesis of Plasmodium vinckei. Nature 208, 1230–1231 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081230a0
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